See also:

• KATMANDU (less correctly KHATMMANDU)

KATMANDU (less correctly KHATMMANDU)  , the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state of See also:

• NEPAL, NEPAUL

Nepal, See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India, situated on the See also:

• BANK

bank of the Vishnumati See also:

• RIVER

river at its confluence with the Baghmati, in 27° 36' N., 85° 24' E . The See also:

• TOWN

town, which is said to have been founded about 723, contains a See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population estimated at 70,000, occupying 5000 houses made of See also:

• BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick, and usually from two to four storeys high . Many of the houses have large projecting wooden windows or balconies, richly carved . The maharaja's See also:

• PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace, a huge, rambling, ungainly See also:

• BUILDING

building, stands in the centre of the town, which also contains numerous temples . One of these, a wooden building in the centre of the town, gives it its name (kat = See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

wood) . The streets are extremely narrow, and the whole town very dirty . A See also:

• BRITISH

British See also:

• RESIDENT

resident is stationed about a mile See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north of the town .