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Bannu (; (パシュトー語:بنو) (:ˈbanu); local Pashto dialect: ''Bana'' or ''Banigul'', Avestan ''Varəna''), is the principal city of the Bannu District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Bannu lies in the northwest corner of the district, in the valley of the Britash. Bannu was once a British military base used for action against Afghan border tribes. The town is located south of the Kurram River, east of Khost Province, Afghanistan, (35 km) east of North and South Waziristan, south of Kohat, 27 km north of Serai Naurang, and north of Dera Ismail Khan. Inhabitants of Bannu are known as Banuchi,〔''Bannu; or our Afghan Frontier''. S.S. Thorbourne, 1883. Trűbner & Co., London, pp. 3, 5.〕 and speak a specific dialect of Pashto. Urdu and the Saraiki dialect of Punjabi are also spoken. ==History== The Avesta and Vendidad mention Varəna, the old name of Bannu has one of the sixteen most beautiful and perfect lands created by Ahura Mazda.〔http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/AryanHome.pdf Michael Witzel, "The Home of the Aryans"]〕 Bannu is noted by the Sanskrit grammarian Pāṇini as the "historical country of Varnu" mentioned in the Mahāmāyūrī. In 602 CE, the Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang travelled to Varnu. Bannu is Hellenized to Aornos and mentioned in the passages of Alexander the Great. Sheri Khan Tarakai refers to the ruins of an ancient settlement that was occupied near present-day Bannu from the late fifth until the early third millennium, BC.〔Petrie, C.A., Thomas, K.D. & Morris, J.C. 2010. Chronology of Sheri Khan Tarakai, in Petrie, C.A. (ed.).''Sheri Khan Tarakai and early village life in the borderlands of north-west Pakistan'', Bannu Archaeological Project Monographs – Volume 1, Oxbow Books, Oxford: 343–352.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bannu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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