Kathmandu, Nepal

Kathmandu (काठमाण्डु) is the largest town and capital of Kingdom of Nepal and therefore the individual of the Katmandu depression. Once thought to be the fabled and inaccessible nirvana, Kathmandu is currently a hub for freelance travelers as well as a growing playground occupation to any or all budgets. As a result of considerable urban growth in recent decades, it is now a part of one continuous geographical area along with Patan to the south.

Geography

The valley is developed from the Katmandu District, Lalitpur District and Bhaktapur District covering an space of 220 sq. miles(almost the world of Singapore). The valley consists of the municipal areas of Katmandu Metropolitan city, Lalitpur Sub-metropolitan City, Bhaktapur municipality, Kirtipur Municipality and Madhyapur Thimi Municipality; the remaining area is created from variety of Village Development Committees. The valley is a cultural and political hub of Kingdom of Nepal. The Kathmandu depression was accorded the standing of a World Heritage web site by United Nations agency in the year 1979.

The major river flowing through the Katmandu depression is that the Bagmati.

History

The Kathmandu depression could have been colonized as early as three hundred BCE, since the oldest known objects in the depression date to a couple of hundred years BCE. The earliest known inscription is dated 185 metallic element. The oldest firmly dated building in the earthquake-prone valley is nearly one,992 years old. Four stupas around the city of Patan, said to have been erected by a definite Charumati, a purported girl of Ashoka the nice, a Mauryan king, in the 3rd century BCE, attest to the ancient history present at intervals the depression. As with the tales of the Buddha’s visit, there is no evidence supporting Ashok’s visit, but the stupas in all probability do date to that century. The Kirats are the 1st  ruled kings of the Katmandu Valley; the persist of their palace are preceding to be in Patan close to Hiranyavarna Mahavihara (called “Patukodon”). The Licchavi folk whose earliest inscriptions date back to 464 metallic element were following rulers of the depression and had shut ties with the Gupta Dynasty of Asian country. The Malla Dynasty dominated Katmandu depression and the close space from the twelfth till the eighteenth century metallic element, when the Shah of Iran folk underneath Prithvi Narayan Shah of Iran conquered the depression as he created current Kingdom of Nepal. Most of ancient Kingdom of Nepali architecture gift in Nepal nowadays is from the Malla era.