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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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The new plan was to go to Peshawar by Highgway while driving by Abbottabad then Taxila and Attock.
Aristobulus relates also some strange and unusual customs of the people of Taxila.
Alexander had left behind a mixed force of Greeks and Indians at Taxila.
I arrived in Taxila around 19:00 to set up the bivouac on the carpark in front of the PTDC where I dined.
Between the Indus and the Hydaspes is Taxila, a large city, and governed by good laws.
Taxila seems to have been situated at some distance to the east of Attock.

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