Gandhara

:For the Philippine municipality, see Gandara, Samar.

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Gandhāra (also Ghandara, Ghandahra, Chandahara, and Persian Gandara) is the name of an ancient country in eastern Afghanistan and north-west Pakistan. Gandhara was located mainly on southern side of Kabul River. In the east, it extended beyond Indus River and included within its boundaries parts of the valley of Kashmir (Political History of Ancient India, 1996, p 151). It is sometimes identified as the antecedent of present day Kandahar in Afghanistan.

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Afghanistan: Afghanistan (Pashtu/Dari-Persian: ?????????, Af??nist?n) is a country in Asia. It is in Central Asia and fringes upon South Asia and is sometimes allocated to one of these regions and it is often considered part of the Middle East due to its location on the Iranian plateau. It is bordered by Iran in...

Kabul River: The Kabul River is a river rises in the Sanglakh Range of Afghanistan, separated from the watershed of the Helmand by the Unai Pass. It flows 700km before joining the Indus River in Pakistan, passing Kabul, Chaharbagh, Jalalabad, and , flowing into Pakistan some 30 km north of the Khyber Pass, Nowsh...

Indus River: The Indus (Sindh darya), known as Sindhu to Indians and in Sanskrit, as Sinthos in Greek, and Sindus in Latin, is the principal river of Pakistan. Before the partition of India into the modern states of India and Pakistan in 1947, The Indus was second only to the Ganges in terms of cultural and comm...