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Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah, King of Nepal ( August 18, 1875 – December 11, 1911 ) was King of Nepal from 1881 until 1911.
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Born in Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal, he ascended to the throne at the age of five, upon the death of his father, King Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah, and crowned on 20 February 1913 at the Nasal Chowk, Hanuman Dhoka Palace in Kathmandu, with his mother acting as regent.
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fr: Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah
pl: Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah Dev
He was the long-time companion of Prithvi Bir Kaur ( 1927-2010 ), the dowager former Maharani of the erstwhile Sikh princely state of Jind.
A son of this union, Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah, ascended to the throne in 1881.
Prithvi and Bikram
Kings Prithvi Narayan Shah, Rana Bahadur and Rajendra Bikram Shah composed poetry and wrote plays.
( Bikram Sambat ) it was annexed to the Gorkhali kingdom of Nepal by King Prithvi Narayan Shah on his third attempt, after bribing the doorman of the city.
Prithvi and Shah
Mutually debilitating wars gradually weakened them, that facilitated conquest of the Kathmandu Valley by King Prithvi Narayan Shah of Gorkha.
Prithvi Narayan Shah ( c. 1769 – 1775 ), with whom we move into the modern period of Nepal's history, was the ninth generation descendant of Dravya Shah ( 1559 – 1570 ), the founder of the ruling house of Gorkha.
Prithvi Narayan Shah succeeded his father King Nara Bhupal Shah to the throne of Gorkha in 1743 AD.
King Prithvi Narayan Shah was quite aware of the political situation of the Valley kingdoms as well as of the Baise and Chaubise principalities.
Finally, King Prithvi Narayan Shah entered the Valley.
As the people of Kathmandu were celebrating the festival of Indrajatra, Prithvi Narayan Shah and his men marched into the city.
Prithvi Narayan Shah sat on the throne and was hailed by the people as the king of Kathmandu.
Thus the Kathmandu Valley was conquered by King Prithvi Narayan Shah and Kathmandu became the capital of the modern Nepal by 1769.
King Prithvi Narayan Shah was successful in bringing together diverse religio-ethnic groups under one national.
After decades of rivalry between the medieval kingdoms, modern Nepal was created in the latter half of the 18th century, when Prithvi Narayan Shah, the ruler of the small principality of Gorkha, formed a unified country from a number of independent hill states.
Prithvi Narayan Shah dedicated himself at an early age to the conquest of the Kathmandu Valley and the creation of a single state, which he achieved in 1768.
After 1800, the heirs of Prithvi Narayan Shah proved unable to maintain firm political control over Nepal.
When Prithvi Narayan Shah took over, he found that it would be a great loss to him if he conceded to the Tibetan demands.
* December 21 – King Prithvi Narayan Shah unifies several small kingdoms to establish the modern-day Nepal.
Later, in the late 18th century his heir Prithvi Narayan Shah raised and improvised an army of Khasa ( Chhetri ), Thakuri, Gurungs, and Magars and possibly other hill tribesmen and set out to conquer and consolidate dozens of small principalities in the Himalayan foothills.
Bahuns from the " hills " have been represented disproportionately in Nepal's education system, political parties and civil service since the country was unified by Prithvi Narayan Shah and his heirs in the 18th century.
Prithvi Narayan Shah, King of Nepal ( 1723 – 1775 ; Nepali: प ृ थ ् व ी न ा र ा यण श ा ह ) was the first king of the unified Nepal.
Prithvi Narayan Shah succeeded his father King Nara Bhupal Shah to the throne of Gorkha in 1743.
After two humiliating defeats, King Prithvi Narayan Shah conquered Kirtipur on his third attempt.
Finally, King Prithvi Narayan Shah entered the valley, after conquering Kirtipur.
Thus King Prithvi Narayan Shah conquered the Kathmandu Valley and made Kathmandu the capital of the Nepal in 1769.
Prithvi and King
King Prithvi Narayan Shah's victory march began with the conquest of Nuwakot, which lies between Kathmandu and Gorkha, in 1744.
The British force was defeated at Sindhuli by King Prithvi Narayan Shah's army.
King Prithvi started annexing parts of Baise-Rajya in the Rapti region around 1760AD.
After losing his northern hill territories to King Prithvi, Chauhan Raja Nawal Singh was forced to move to his southern territories ( currently Tulsipur / Balarampur in India ) and ruled as one of the largest Taluqdar of Oudh.
King Prithvi Narayan Shah's successful entry began with the union of Nuwakot, which lies between Kathmandu and Gorkha District, in 1744.
Once the foundation of the Kingdom of Nepal was thus laid, King Prithvi Narayan Shah turned his attention towards the east.
King Prithvi Nārāyaṇ Shah managed to unify small principalities into one nation, Nepal.
Until then King Prithvi only had four daughters.
His decendents continued to be Rajpurohits of Delhi up to the year 1192 AD., the rule of Rajput King Prithvi Raj Chauhan, when his Rajpurohit was Priti Chandra of the same clan.
In 1806 Nepali King Prithvi Narayan Shah united Nepal and many of the Indian territories now fell under Nepal such as Almora, Phatankot, Kumaon, Garhwal, Simur, Shimla, Kangra and Dehradun itself.
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