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Grand Trunk Road
Also Known As Uttarapatha
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One of the oldest and longest major roads in Asia, linking Central Asia to South Asia for at least 2,500 years. Buddhist literature already refers to it as the Uttarapatha before the Maurya Empire; Chandragupta Maurya built its third century BC precursor, reportedly inspired by the Persian Royal Road, and later rulers including Ashoka, Sher Shah Suri and the Mughals maintained and extended it. The modern road runs about 3,655 kilometres from Teknaf, Bangladesh to Kabul, Afghanistan, through Dhaka, Kolkata, Delhi, Lahore and Peshawar. There is no single construction year across this multi-era road, so no completion-year fact is recorded here.
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SignificanceOne of the major trade routes of South and Central Asia across more than two millennia, carrying both commerce and postal communication between India and the northwestern frontier. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Wikipedia: Grand Trunk Road
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Over the centuries, the road acted as one of the major trade routes in the region and facilitated both travel and postal communication.
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