Atari, Pakistan

Atari
Atari
	Atari
	Coordinates: 30°26′53″N71°57′4″E / 30.44806°N 71.95111°E
Country	Pakistan
Province	Punjab (Pakistan)
District	Khanewal
Elevation	252 m (827 ft)
Time zone	PST (UTC+5)

Last updated March 12, 2019

Atari is a town of Khanewal District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located at 30°26'53N 71°57'4E at an altitude of 252 metres (830 ft) ^[1] and lies 20 km west-south-west of Tulamba.^[2]

Khanewal District is a district of the Punjab province of Pakistan. According to the 1998 census of Pakistan, the district had a population of 2,068,490, of which 17.42% were urban. Khanewal is located at 30°18'0N 71°55'0E with an altitude of 128 metres.

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the world’s sixth-most populous country with a population exceeding 212,742,631 people. In area, it is the 33rd-largest country, spanning 881,913 square kilometres. Pakistan has a 1,046-kilometre (650-mile) coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest, and China in the far northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor in the northwest, and also shares a maritime border with Oman.

Tulamba, is a small city in Punjab, Pakistan. Tulamba is situated on the eastern edge of the Ravi River, between the cities of Abdul Hakeem and Mian Channu. Prior to 1985 Tulamba belonged to the district of Multan, but in 1985 it was included within Mian Channu Tehsil in the newly formed Khanewal District. Tulamba's population is nearly 50,000. The spoken language is Rachnavi Punjabi. A native of Tulamba is referred to as a Tulmabvi.

History

The town of Atari is located near to a ruined fortress, once evidently of great strength, and was identified by Alexander Cunningham with the city of the Brahmans, the third city taken by Alexander the Great in his invasion of India and its subsequent merger into the Hellenic Empire. The citadel is 750 feet (230 m) square and 35 feet (11 m) high, surrounded by a ditch now almost undistinguishable, and having a central tower 50 feet (15 m) in height. On two sides stretch the remains of an ancient town, forming a massive mound covered with huge bricks, whose size attests their great antiquity. No tradition exists as to the origin or history of these remains, and the name of the old city is unknown.^[2]

Sir Alexander Cunningham was a British army engineer with the Bengal Engineer Group who later took an interest in the history and archaeology of India. In 1861 he was appointed to the newly created position of archaeological surveyor to the government of India; and he founded and organised what later became the Archaeological Survey of India. He wrote numerous books and monographs and made extensive collections of artefacts. Some of his collections were lost, but most of the gold and silver coins and a fine group of Buddhist sculptures and jewellery were bought by the British Museum in 1894.

Alexander III of Macedon, commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king (basileus) of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty. He was born in Pella in 356 BC and succeeded his father Philip II to the throne at the age of 20. He spent most of his ruling years on an unprecedented military campaign through Asia and northeast Africa, and he created one of the largest empires of the ancient world by the age of thirty, stretching from Greece to northwestern India. He was undefeated in battle and is widely considered one of history's most successful military commanders.

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Coordinates: 30°26′53″N71°57′4″E / 30.44806°N 71.95111°E / 30.44806; 71.95111

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[1] Location of Atari - Falling Rain Genomics

[IGI-2] 1 2 Atāri - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 6, p. 121.