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India has the sixth-most sites worldwide. The first sites to be listed were the Ajanta Caves, Ellora Caves, Agra Fort, and Taj Mahal, all of which were inscribed in the 1983 session of the World Heritage Committee. The most recent site listed is the Moidams – the Mound-Burial System of the Ahom Dynasty, in 2024. [ 3]
Decathlon ( French pronunciation: [dekatlɔ̃]) is a French sporting goods retailer. With over 2,080 stores in 78 countries and regions (2023), [ 1] it is the largest sporting goods retailer in the world. [ 5][ 6] The company manages the research, design, production, logistics and distribution of its products in-house; partners with global ...
4. First IKEA in a Muslim-majority country; stores are located in the metropolitan areas of Riyadh, Jeddah, and Dhahran. The Riyadh and Jeddah stores have been completely rebuilt and relocated in recent years. The store in Dhahran opened in 2008. The second store in Jeddah opened in 2017.
The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm. World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appear in the Hellenistic period. The developments of Greek geography during this time, notably by Eratosthenes and Posidonius culminated in the Roman ...
Parent. Caleres (1980–present) Website. famousfootwear .com. Famous Footwear is a nationwide chain of retail stores in the United States dealing in branded footwear, generally at prices discounted from manufacturer's suggested prices. The chain is a division of the St. Louis –based Caleres and had more than 1,125 stores in 2010.
Chor Bazaar in Mumbai emerged as one of the oldest markets of second-hand goods in India since the British rule in India. In modern times, it is said to sell mostly second-hand goods rather than stolen goods. The market is now famous for antique and vintage items. [6] [7] A store called Mini Market offers old Bollywood posters for sale. [8]
He created the first global projection of the world, incorporating parallels and meridians based on the available geographic knowledge of his era. Eratosthenes was the founder of scientific chronology ; [ 5 ] he used Egyptian and Persian records to estimate the dates of the main events of the Trojan War , dating the sack of Troy to 1183 BC.
Dimitrios Galanos (Greek: Δημήτριος Γαλανός, 1760–1833) was the first modern Greek Indologist who lived for 40 years in India and translated many Sanskrit texts into Greek making available the knowledge of the philosophical and literary traditions of India in Greece and the rest of the world.