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HISTORY It appears that Kirata people were and aid from India, and buying one of the first to settle in Nepal; the neutrality of bordering Indian they are said to have ruled Nepal kingdoms, he embarked on his for about 2,500 years. Nepal is first mission in 1765. After several mentioned in the late Vedic text, bloody battles and sieges, he Atharvaveda Parisista as a place managed to unify the Kathmandu POPULATION exporting blankets, and in the post- Valley and surrounding territory Approximately 28,670,677 (2011), Vedic Atharva Siras Upanisad. In three years later in 1768. growing from just 9 million in 1950. Samudragupta's Allahabad However, an actual battle never inscription it is mentioned as a took place to conquer the CLIMATE bordering country. The 'Skanda Kathmandu valley; it was taken Nepal has a typical monsoonal, two Purana' has a separate chapter over by Prithvi Narayan and his season year. known as 'Nepal Mahatmya', troops without any effort, during Dry Season: October - May which "explains in more details Indra Jatra, a festival of Newars, Wet Season: June - September when all the valley's citizens were about the beauty and power of Nepal." Nepal is also mentioned in celebrating the festival. This event TIME Hindu texts such as the Narayana marked the birth of the modern Nepal is five hours, 45 minutes ahead Puja. nation of Nepal. of GMT. 30 Minutes ahead of Indian Time. Around 500 BCE, small kingdoms The Communist Party of Nepal and confederations of clans arose in (Maoist) won the largest number VISAS the southern regions of Nepal. of seats in the Constituent Visas are required for Nepal. From one of these, the Shakya Assembly election held on 10 polity, arose a prince named April 2008, and formed a coalition Siddharta Gautama (traditionally government which included most dated 563-483 BCE), who later of the parties in the CA. Although renounced his status to lead an acts of violence occurred during ascetic life and came to be known the pre-electoral period, election BanGkok as the Buddha ("the enlightened observers noted that the elections one"). It is believed that the 7th themselves were markedly Kirata king, Jitedasti, was on the peaceful and "well-carried out". throne in the Nepal valley at the The newly elected Assembly met time. By 250 BCE, the southern in Kathmandu on 28 May 2008, regions came under the influence and, after a polling of 564 of the Mauryan Empire of northern constituent Assembly members, India, and Nepal later on became a 560 voted to form a new nominal vassal state under the government, with the monarchist Gupta Empire in the fourth century Rastriya Prajatantra Party, which CE. Beginning in the 3rd century had four members in the CE, rulers called the Licchavis assembly, registering a dissenting governed the Kathmandu Valley note. At that point, it was declared and surrounding central Nepal. that Nepal had become a secular and inclusive democratic republic, After centuries of petty rivalry with the government announcing between the three kingdoms, in the a three-day public holiday from mid-18th century, Prithvi Narayan 28 to 30 May. The King was Shah, a Gorkha King, set out to thereafter given 15 days to vacate unify the kingdoms. Seeking arms the Narayanhiti Royal Palace, to re-open it as a public museum.