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  2. Kansai region - Wikipedia

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    Geofeatures map of Kansai Kansai region, satellite photo The Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the world until 2022, with a centre span of 1,991 m. The Kansai region is a cultural center and the historical heart of Japan, with 11% of the nation's land area and 22,757,897 residents as of 2010. [1]

  3. Category:History of the Kansai region - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "History of the Kansai region" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. F.

  4. History of Hindustani language - Wikipedia

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    In these cities, the language continued to be called "Hindi" as well as "Urdu". [27] [21] While Urdu retained the grammar and core vocabulary of the local Hindi dialect, it adopted the Nastaleeq writing system from Persian. [21] [28] The term Hindustani is derived from Hindustan, the Persian-origin name for the northwestern Indian subcontinent.

  5. Category:Kansai region - Wikipedia

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    History of the Kansai region (15 C, 1 P) Hyōgo Prefecture (16 C, 14 P) K. Keihanshin (1 C, 5 P) Kii Province (15 P) Kyoto (14 C, 13 P) ... Pages in category "Kansai ...

  6. Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Hindi in the Devanagari script and Urdu written in the Perso-Arabic script established a sectarian divide of "Urdu" for Muslims and "Hindi" for Hindus, a divide that was formalised with the partition of colonial India into the Dominion of India and the Dominion of Pakistan after independence (though there are Hindu poets who continue to write ...

  7. Kinai - Wikipedia

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    [2] The name is still used to describe part of the Kansai region, but the area of the Kinai corresponds only generally to the land of the old provinces. [1] The region was established as one of the Gokishichidō ("Five provinces and seven roads") during the Asuka period (538-710). It consisted of Yamashiro, Yamato, Settsu, Kawachi, and Izumi ...

  8. Japan's Kansai region a major battleground for gas and ... - AOL

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    Retail power and gas heavyweights Kansai Electric Power and Osaka Gas are locked in a struggle for dominance in the Kansai region, whose economy is nearly the size of South Korea's and includes ...

  9. Linguistic history of India - Wikipedia

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    Early Tamil Epigraphy from the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. Harvard Oriental Series vol. 62. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01227-1. Meenakshisundaran, TP (1965). A history of Tamil language. Poona: Linguistic Society of India. Monius, Anne E. (November 2002). "Kavya in South India: Old Tamil Cankam Poetry".