When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Pachisi - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachisi

    Large ancient garden version – Fatehpur Sikri – India; marked squares can just be made out under the shadows of the onlookers. Louis Rousselet wrote: The game of Pachisi was played by Akbar in a truly regal manner. The Court itself, divided into red and white squares, being the board, and an enormous stone raised on four feet, representing ...

  3. Hazarduari Palace - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazarduari_Palace

    The name of the palace that is Hazarduari, in which Hazar means "thousand" and Duari means "the one with doors"; thus, the total sums up to "the one with a thousand doors". The palace earlier known as Bara Kothi has been named so as the palace has in all 1000 doors, of which 100 are false. They were built so that if any thief or robber tried to ...

  4. Chaupar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaupar

    Fabric chausar board. Chaupar (IAST: caupaṛ), chopad or chaupad is a cross and circle board game very similar to pachisi, played in India.The board is made of wool or cloth, with wooden pawns and seven cowry shells to be used to determine each player's move, although others distinguish chaupur from pachisi by the use of three four-sided long dice. [1]

  5. Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazar_hypothesis_of...

    Khazar Khaganate, 650–850. The Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry, often called the Khazar myth by its critics, [1] [2] is a largely abandoned historical hypothesis [by whom?] that postulated that Ashkenazi Jews were primarily, or to a large extent, descended from Khazars, a multi-ethnic conglomerate of mostly Turkic peoples who formed a semi-nomadic khanate in and around the northern ...

  6. Tel Hazor - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Hazor

    Tel Hazor (Hebrew: תל חצור), also Chatsôr (Hebrew: חָצוֹר), translated in LXX as Hasōr (Ancient Greek: Άσώρ), [1] [2] named in Arabic Tell Waqqas / Tell Qedah el-Gul [3] (Arabic: تل القدح, romanized: Tell el-Qedah), is an archaeological tell at the site of ancient Hazor, located in Israel, Upper Galilee, north of the Sea of Galilee, in the northern Korazim Plateau.

  7. Dictionary of the Khazars - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_the_Khazars

    The third briefly takes place in the 1960s and 70s, but mostly in the 1980s, and includes stories of academics of areas that are in some way to do with the Khazars. There are also mentions of things that happened outside of these periods, such as the talk of primordial beings like Adam Ruhani and Adam Cadmon .

  8. Pachchis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachchis

    Pachchis is a 2021 Indian Telugu-language thriller film directed by debutants Sri Krishna and Rama Sai. [2] Produced jointly by Avasa Chitram, Raasta Films, and Mango Mass Media, the film features Raamz and Swetaa Varma in lead roles.

  9. Leo IV the Khazar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_IV_the_Khazar

    Leo IV was born on 25 January 750 AD, [2] to Emperor Constantine V and his first wife, Empress Tzitzak who had been given the Christian name Eirene. [3] Because his mother was a Khazar, Leo was given the epithet 'the Khazar'. [4]