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History of Bhutan

Index History of Bhutan

Bhutan's early history is steeped in mythology and remains obscure. [1]

42 relations: Archery in Bhutan, Bhutan, Bhutan House, Bhutan Times, Bhutan War, Bumthang Province, Daga Province, Driglam namzha, Druk Desi, Druk Gyalpo, Dzongpen, Education in Bhutan, House of Wangchuck, Index of Bhutan-related articles, Jigme Namgyal (Bhutan), Kurmaed Province, Kurtoed Province, List of countries by population in 1939, List of rulers of Bhutan, List of territorial disputes, List of tributaries of China, Military history of Bhutan, Ngalop people, Outline of Bhutan, Outline of South Asian history, Paro Province, Penlop, Provinces of Bhutan, Punakha Province, Slavery in Bhutan, Sonam Topgay Dorji, South Asian Stone Age, Thimphu Province, Tibetan dual system of government, Timeline of Asian nations, Timeline of Bhutanese history, Treaty of Punakha, Trongsa Province, Tsa Yig, Ugyen Dorji, Valleys of Bhutan, Wangdue Phodrang Province.

Archery in Bhutan

Archery in Bhutan (Dzongkha: མདའ་ (da); Wylie: mdaa; "arrow," "archery") is the national sport of the Kingdom.

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Bhutan

Bhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan (Druk Gyal Khap), is a landlocked country in South Asia.

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Bhutan House

Bhutan House is an estate located in Kalimpong, West Bengal, India, owned by the Dorji family of Bhutan.

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Bhutan Times

The Bhutan Times is Bhutan's first privately owned newspaper, and only the second in the country after the government owned and autonomous Kuensel.

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Bhutan War

The Bhutan War (or Duar War) was a war fought between British India and Bhutan in 1864–1865.

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Bumthang Province

Bumthang Province (Dzongkha: བུམ་ཐང་; Wylie: bum-thang) was one of the nine historical Provinces of Bhutan.

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Daga Province

Daga Province (Dzongkha: དར་དཀར་; Wylie: dar-dkar) was one of the nine historical Provinces of Bhutan.

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Driglam namzha

The Driglam Namzha is the official behaviour and dress code of Bhutan.

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Druk Desi

The Druk Desi (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་སྡེ་སྲིད་; Wylie: 'brug sde-srid; also called "Deb Raja")The original title is Dzongkha: སྡེ་སྲིད་ཕྱག་མཛོད་; Wylie: sde-srid phyag-mdzod.

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Druk Gyalpo

The Druk Gyalpo (lit. "Dragon King" or the King of Bhutan) is the head of state of the Kingdom of Bhutan.

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Dzongpen

Dzongpen (Dzongkha: རྗོང་དཔོན་; Wylie: rjong-dpon; also spelled "Dzongpon," "Dzongpön," "Jongpen," "Jongpon," "Jongpön") is a Dzongkha term roughly translated as governor or dzong lord.

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Education in Bhutan

Western-style education was introduced to Bhutan during the reign of Ugyen Wangchuck (1907–26).

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House of Wangchuck

The House of Wangchuck has ruled Bhutan since it was reunified in 1907.

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Index of Bhutan-related articles

Articles (arranged alphabetically) related to Bhutan include.

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Jigme Namgyal (Bhutan)

Desi Jigme Namgyal of Bhutan (Dzongkha: འཇིགས་མེད་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་;, 1825–1881) is a forefather of the Wangchuck Dynasty.

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Kurmaed Province

Kurmaed Province (Dzongkha: ཀུར་སྨད་; Wylie: kur-smad; "Lower Kur") was one of the nine historical Provinces of Bhutan.

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Kurtoed Province

Kurtoed Province (Dzongkha: ཀུར་སྟོད་; Wylie: kur-stod; "Upper Kur") was one of the nine historical Provinces of Bhutan.

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List of countries by population in 1939

This is a list of countries by population in 1939, providing an approximate overview of the world population before World War II.

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List of rulers of Bhutan

Bhutan was founded and unified as a country by Ngawang Namgyal, 1st Zhabdrung Rinpoche in the mid–17th century.

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List of territorial disputes

This is a list of territorial disputes over lands around the world, both past and in modern times.

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List of tributaries of China

This list of tributary states of China encompasses suzerain kingdoms from China in Europe, Africa, East Asia, South Asia, Central Asia and Southeast Asia.

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Military history of Bhutan

The military history of Bhutan begins with the Battle of Five Lamas in 1634, marking Bhutan's emergence as a nation under the secular and religious leadership of Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal.

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Ngalop people

The Ngalop (སྔལོངཔ་; "earliest risen people" or "first converted people" according to folk etymology) are people of Tibetan origin who migrated to Bhutan as early as the ninth century.

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Outline of Bhutan

The location of Bhutan An enlargeable map of the Kingdom of Bhutan The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Bhutan: Bhutan – landlocked sovereign country located in South Asia.

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Outline of South Asian history

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the history of South Asia: History of South Asia – South Asia includes the contemporary political entities of the Indian subcontinent and associated islands, therefore, its history includes the histories of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Afghanistan, Bhutan, and the island nations of Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

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Paro Province

Paro Province (Dzongkha: སྤ་རོ་; Wylie: spa-ro) was one of the nine historical Provinces of Bhutan.

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Penlop

Penlop (Dzongkha: དཔོན་སློབ་; Wylie: dpon-slob; also spelled Ponlop, Pönlop) is a Dzongkha term roughly translated as governor.

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Provinces of Bhutan

The Provinces of Bhutan were historical regions of Bhutan headed by penlops and dzongpens (both translated as "governor").

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Punakha Province

Punakha Province (Dzongkha: སྤུ་ན་ཁ་; Wylie: spu-na-kha) was one of the nine historical Provinces of Bhutan.

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Slavery in Bhutan

Slavery in Bhutan was a common legal, economic, and social institution until its abolition in 1958.

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Sonam Topgay Dorji

Sir Raja Sonam Topgay Dorji (CIE) (Dzongkha:སྟོབས་རྒྱས་རྡོ་རྗེ་; Wylie transliteration: Stobs-rgyas Rdo-rje) (1896–1953), also called Tobgay, was a member of the Dorji family and Bhutanese politician who served between 1917 and 1952 in the Royal Government under the First and Second Kings of Bhutan.

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South Asian Stone Age

The South Asian Stone Age covers the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods in South Asia.

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Thimphu Province

Thimphu Province (Dzongkha: ཀྲོང་གསར་; Wylie: krong-gsar) was one of the nine historical Provinces of Bhutan.

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Tibetan dual system of government

The Dual System of Government is the traditional diarchal political system of Tibetan peoples whereby the Desi (temporal ruler) coexists with the spiritual authority of the realm, usually unified under a third single ruler.

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Timeline of Asian nations

This table is under construction.

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Timeline of Bhutanese history

This is a timeline of Bhutanese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Bhutan and its predecessor states.

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Treaty of Punakha

The Treaty of Punakha was an agreement signed on 8 January 1910, at Punakha Dzong between the recently consolidated Kingdom of Bhutan and British India.

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Trongsa Province

Trongsa Province (Dzongkha: ཀྲོང་གསར་; Wylie: krong-gsar) was one of the nine historical Provinces of Bhutan.

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Tsa Yig

The Tsa Yig is any monastic constitution or code of moral discipline based on codified Tibetan Buddhist precepts.

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Ugyen Dorji

Ugyen Dorji (ཨོ་རྒྱན་རྡོ་རྗེ་,, 1855–1916) was a member of the elite Dorji family and an influential Bhutanese politician.

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Valleys of Bhutan

The valleys of Bhutan are carved into the Himalaya by Bhutan's rivers, fed by glacial melt and monsoon rains.

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Wangdue Phodrang Province

Wangdue Phodrang Province (Dzongkha: དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་; Wylie: dbang-'dus pho-brang) was one of the nine historical Provinces of Bhutan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Bhutan

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