The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European powers formed into various coalitions. It produced a brief period of French domination over most of continental Europe. The wars stemmed from the unresolved disputes associated with the French Revolution and its resultant conflict. The wars are
Rahmat-un-Nissa (Persian: رحمت النساء بیگم) (died c. 1691) better known by her title Nawab Bai, was a secondary wife of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. She was a Muslim Rajput of Jarral lineage who married Aurangzeb in 1638 as part of a political alliance. She gave birth to Aurangzeb’s first two sons, including Bahadur Shah I, who became Mughal emperor in 1707. Nawab Bai was unpopular at the
Nayabad Mosque or Noyabaad Mosque, is located in Nayabad village in Kaharole Upazila of Dinajpur District, Bangladesh, beside the Dhepa River. It was built in 1793 CE during the rule of Mughal ruler Shah Alam II. As indicated by local belief it was built by the Muslim architectural workers who came from Persia to build the Kantajew Temple for their own use. Structure The building is oblong,
The “New World” is a eurocultural term applied to the majority of Earth’s Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas. The term gained prominence in the early 16th century, during the Europe’s Age of Discovery, shortly after Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci concluded America represented a new continent, and subsequently published his findings in a pamphlet titled Mundus Novus. This realization expanded the geographical horizon of classical European geographers, who had thought
Niccolao Manucci (19 April 1638–1717) was an Venetian writer, doctor and traveller, who wrote a first hand account of the Mughal Empire. In 1653, he was recruited as a servant and guide by Henry Bard, 1st Viscount Bellomont, envoy from Charles II of England to Abbas II of Persia and Shah Jahan. After Bard died at Hodal on 20 June 1656, Manucci remained in India for the rest
Nishat Bagh (Urdu: نشاط باغ) is a terraced Mughal garden built on the eastern side of the Dal Lake, close to Srinagar in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is the second largest Mughal garden in the Kashmir Valley . Shalimar Bagh, which is also located on the bank of the Dal Lake. ‘Nishat Bagh’ is Urdu, and means the “Garden of Joy,” “Garden of Gladness”
Khwaja Nizam-ud-Din Ahmad Bakshi (also spelled as Nizam ad-Din Ahmad and Nizam al-Din Ahmad) (born 1551, died 1621/1030 AH) was a Muslim historian of late medieval India. He was son of Muhammad Muqim-i-Harawi. He was Akbar‘s Mir Bakhshi. His work, the Tabaqat-i-Akbari, is a comprehensive work on general history covering the time from the Ghaznavids (986-7) up to the 38th year of Akbar’s reign (1593-4/1002 AH). The author
Old Delhi or Purani Dilli is an area part of the greater city of Delhi, India. It was founded as a walled city named Shahjahanabad in 1639, when Shah Jahan (the Mughalemperor at the time) decided to shift the Mughal capital from Agra. The construction of the city was completed in 1648, and it remained the capital of the Mughal Empire until its fall in 1857, when the British Raj took over as paramount power
An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial, marine, or celestial events. Astronomy, climatology/meteorology, geophysical, oceanography and volcanology are examples of disciplines for which observatories have been constructed. Historically, observatories were as simple as containing an astronomical sextant (for measuring the distance between stars) or Stonehenge (which has some alignments on astronomical phenomena). Contents 1Astronomical observatories 1.1Ground-based observatories 1.1.1Radio observatories 1.1.2Highest astronomical observatories 1.1.3Oldest astronomical observatories 1.2Space-based observatories
Observational astronomy is a division of astronomy that is concerned with recording data about the observable universe, in contrast with theoretical astronomy, which is mainly concerned with calculating the measurable implications of physical models. It is the practice and study of observing celestial objects with the use of telescopes and other astronomical instruments. As a science, the study of astronomy is somewhat hindered in that direct experiments with the properties of