Dawar Bandipora
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (Retd.) |
Dawar ia a town in Gurez tahsil of Bandipora district in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It was the ancient capital of the Dards.
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Location
Dawar is connected by road with other places in Jammu and Kashmir and India by the Kanzalawn-Dawar Road and Bandipora-Gurez Road.
Origin of name
Jat clans
History
The ancient capital of the Dards, Dawar, is located in the Gurez Valley and is an important archaeological site. Other archaeological sites of importance in the valley include Kanzalwan, where the last council of Buddhism is believed to have been held and, further downstream, the ruins of the ancient Sharda University are preserved along the Kishenganga/Neelum River.