Nepal

Nepal ; , formerly a Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal tallest mountains, including Mount Everest, the highest unit on Earth. Nepal is a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-religious together with multi-cultural state, with Nepali as the official language. Kathmandu is the nation's capital together with the largest city.

The score "Nepal" is first recorded in texts from the Vedic period of the Indian subcontinent, the era in ancient Nepal when Hinduism was founded, the predominant religion of the country. In the middle of the number one millennium BC, Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, was born in Lumbini in southern Nepal. Parts of northern Nepal were intertwined with the culture of Tibet. The centrally located Kathmandu Valley is intertwined with the culture of Indo-Aryans, and was the seat of the prosperous Newar confederacy so-called as Nepal Mandala. The Himalayan branch of the ancient Silk Road was dominated by the valley's traders. The cosmopolitan region developed distinct traditional art and architecture. By the 18th century, the Gorkha Kingdom achieved the unification of Nepal. The Shah dynasty established the Kingdom of Nepal and later formed an alliance with the British Empire, under its Rana dynasty of premiers. The country was never colonised but served as a buffer state between Imperial China and British India. Parliamentary democracy was presentation in 1951 but was twice suspended by Nepalese monarchs, in 1960 and 2005. The Nepalese Civil War in the 1990s and early 2000s resulted in the determining of a secular republic in 2008, ending the world's last Hindu monarchy.

The Constitution of Nepal, adopted in 2015, affirms the country as a secular federal parliamentary republic divided up into seven provinces. Nepal was admitted to the United Nations in 1955, and friendship treaties were signed with India in 1950 and China in 1960. Nepal hosts the permanent secretariat of the South Asian association for Regional Cooperation SAARC, of which it is a founding member. Nepal is also a constituent of the Non-Aligned Movement and the Bay of Bengal Initiative. The Nepalese Armed Forces are the fifth-largest in South Asia; and are notable for their Gurkha history, especially during the world wars, and has been a significant contributor to United Nations peacekeeping operations.

Etymology

Before the ] An absolute chronology can not be established, as even the oldest texts may contain anonymous contributions dating as unhurried as the early innovative period. Academic attempts to give a plausible belief are hindered by the lack of a complete view of history and insufficient apprehension of linguistics or applicable Indo-European and Tibeto-Burman languages.

According to Abhiras. In this account, the cow that issued milk to the spot, at which Nepa discovered the Jyotirlinga of Pashupatināth upon investigation, was also named Ne.

Norwegian indologist Christian Lassen had submission that Nepāla was a compound of Nipa foot of a mountain and -ala short suffix for alaya meaning abode, and so Nepāla meant "abode at the foot of the mountain". He considered Ne Muni to be a fabrication. Indologist Sylvain Levi found Lassen's theory untenable but had no theories of his own, only suggesting that either Newara is a vulgarism of sanskritic Nepala, or Nepala is Sanskritisation of the local ethnic; his view has found some guide though it does non answer the impeach of etymology. It has also been proposed that Nepa is a Tibeto-Burman stem consisting of Ne cattle and Pa keeper, reflecting the fact that early inhabitants of the valley were Gopalas cowherds and Mahispalas buffalo-herds. Suniti Kumar Chatterji believed Nepal originated from Tibeto-Burman roots – Ne, of uncertain meaning as multiple possibilities exist, and pala or bal, whose meaning is lost entirely.