Lucknow
Lucknow (Template:IPAc-en; Template:Lang-hi, Template:Lang-ur, Template:IAST, Template:IPA-hns) is the caipital ceety o Uttar Pradesh in Indie.[1] Lucknow is the admeenistrative heidquarters o Lucknow destrict an Lucknow diveesion. Straddlin the river Gomti, modren Lucknow is a bustlin an fast growin metropolis wi a population o amaist 3 million (2011), rapidly emergin as a manufacturin, commercial an retailin hub.
Located in what was oreeginally kent as the Awadh (Oudh) region, Lucknow haes aaways been kent as a multicultural ceety, an flourished as a cultural an airtistic caipital o North Indie in the 18t an 19t centuries. Courtly manners, bonnie gardens, poetry, muisic, an fine cuisine patronised bi the Shia Nawabs o Iranian oreegin,[2][3] are well kent amangst Indies an students o Sooth Asie cultur an history.[4] Lucknow is popularly kent as The Ceety o Nawabs. It is an aw kent as the Gowden Ceety o the East, Shiraz-i-Hind an The Constantinople o Indie.[5]
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- ↑ Welcome to Lucknow District Official Website. Lucknow.nic.in. Retrieved on 26 Mairch 2010. .
- ↑ Sacred space and holy war: the politics, culture and history of Shi'ite Islam By Juan Ricardo Cole
- ↑ Encyclopædia Iranica,, "Avadh", E. Yarshater
- ↑ History. Lucknow. Retrieved on 26 Mairch 2010. .
- ↑ Lucknow Tour. Lucknow.nic.in (11 April 1936). Retrieved on 26 Mairch 2010. . Template:Dead link
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