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What does Taxila mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Taxila? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. (historical) An ancient city in what is now northern Pakistan, situated at the junction of three major ancient trade routes and possibly dating from before the 8th century BCE.
  2. A modern town and archaeological site at that location.
  3. A tehsil (sub-division), headquartered in the town, of the Rawalpindi District of Punjab, Pakistan.
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Coming to the court of Phraotes, King of Taxila, Apollonius was hospitably received by this vegetarian emperor who led a Pythagorean life except for his mild use of wine.
In the area of architecture, a few examples of the Ionic order can be found as far as Pakistan with the Jandial temple near Taxila.
The new plan was to go to Peshawar by Highgway while driving by Abbottabad then Taxila and Attock.
Taxila and Peshawar, ancient Gandhara's chief cities, were important cultural centres.
It invited the Pakistani authorities to submit a proposed revision of the Taxila site in due course.
Taxila seems to have been situated at some distance to the east of Attock.

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