Shalimar or Shalamar refers to three historic royal gardens (or Baghs) of the Mughal Empire in South Asia:
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Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar
Shalimar Bagh is a Mughal garden in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, linked through a channel to the northeast of Dal Lake. It is also known as Shalimar Gardens, Farah Baksh, and Faiz Baksh. The other famous shoreline garden in the vicinity ...
, Jammu and Kashmir, India; built in 1619
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Shalimar Gardens, Lahore
The Shalimar Gardens ( ur, , translit=Shālāmār Bāgh) are a Mughal garden complex located in Lahore, Pakistan. The gardens date from the period when the Mughal Empire was at its artistic and aesthetic zenith, and are now one of Pakistan's mos ...
, Pakistan; a UNESCO World Heritage Site built in 1641
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Shalimar Bagh, Delhi
Shalimar Bagh also known as Shalimar Garden is a Mughal garden located on the banks of Yamuna river in Delhi, India. It was named as Aizzabad Bagh when the garden was laid by Izz-un-Nissa wife of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in 1653 AD as a trib ...
, India; built in 1653
Shalimar may also refer to:
South Asia
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Shalimar Garden, Ghaziabad
Shalimar Garden is a residential-cum-commercial locality in the North Western part of the city of Ghaziabad, India, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. It comprises three wards of the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation and accordingly has three major division ...
, an area in Ghaziabad
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Shalimar, Lahore
Shalimar ( Punjabi, ur, ) is an administrative town (tehsil) in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It forms one of the 10 municipalities of Lahore City District.
History
Shalimar is one of the oldest neighbourhoods in Lahore, located along the histor ...
, one of the constituent towns of Lahore, Pakistan
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Shalamar Institute of Health Sciences
Shalamar Institute of Health Sciences (abbreviated as SIHS), named after Shalimar Gardens, Lahore, is a medical complex and an umbrella organization providing health care and medical services. It consists of Shalamar Hospital, Shalamar Nursing ...
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Shalamar Hospital
Shalamar Hospital, established in 1982 and named after the historical Shalimar Gardens, Lahore, is a non-profit hospital located on Shalimar Link Road, Lahore in Shalimar Town. It was founded in 1982 by a Pakistani businessman Chaudhry Ahmad Mu ...
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Shalamar Medical and Dental College
Shalamar Medical and Dental College ( ur, , abbreviated as SMDC, SHMC or SHMDC), established in 2009 and named after Shalimar Gardens, Lahore, is a private college of medicine and dentistry located on Shalimar Link Road, Lahore in Shalimar Tow ...
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Shalimar railway station
Shalimar railway station is one of five intercity railway stations serving Howrah and Kolkata, India. The other stations are in Kolkata, Kolkata station in Kolkata, Howrah Station in Howrah and Santragachi in Howrah. Shalimar station is situ ...
, serving Howrah and Kolkata
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Shalimar Express
Shalimar Express is a daily train between Delhi and Jammu Tawi. It is operated by the Northern Railways. Its number is 14645/14646. It comes in the Non Superfast (Mail/Express) trains category of the Indian Railways.
History and etymology
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, train between Delhi and Jammu Tawi, India
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Shalimar Express (Pakistan)
Shalimar Express ( ur, ) is a passenger train operated daily by Pakistan Railways between Karachi and Lahore. The trip takes approximately 18 hours and 40 minutes to cover a published distance of , traveling along a stretch of the Karachi–Pes ...
, train between Karachi and Lahore
Other places
* Shalimar, alternative name of
Shadmehr
Shadmehr ( fa, شادمهر; also Romanized as Shādmehr; also known as Shādmir and Shalimar) is a city and capital of Shadmehr District, in Mahvelat County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of I ...
, a small city in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
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Shalimar, Florida
Shalimar is a town in Okaloosa County, Florida, United States. The population was 717 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Fort Walton Beach– Crestview– Destin Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Geography
Shalimar is located at (3 ...
, a town in the United States
Music
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Shalamar
Shalamar () is an American R&B and soul music vocal group active since the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. Shalamar's classic line-up on the SOLAR label consisted of Howard Hewett, Jody Watley, and Jeffrey Daniel, together with dancer ...
, a soul-R&B group
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Kashmiri Song
"Kashmiri Song" or "Pale Hands I Loved" is a 1902 song by Amy Woodforde-Finden based on a poem by Laurence Hope, pseudonym of Violet Nicolson.
The poem first appeared in Hope's first collection of poems, '' The Garden of Kama'' (1901), also kno ...
" (1902), also known by its first line "Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar"
* A river in "The Hippopotamus Song" by
Flanders and Swann
Flanders and Swann were a British comedy duo. Lyricist, actor and singer Michael Flanders (1922–1975) and composer and pianist Donald Swann (1923–1994) collaborated in writing and performing comic songs. They first worked together in a scho ...
Film and literature
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''Shalimar'' (1946 film), a 1946 Bollywood film
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''Shalimar'' (1978 film), a 1978 Hindi film
* ''Shalimar'', a book by
Manohar Malgonkar
Manohar Malgonkar (Marathi language, Marathi: 2 July 1913- 14 June, 2010[karwar district, was an Indian author of both fiction and nonfiction in the English language. He was also an army officer, a big game hunter, a civil servant, a mine ow ...
* ''Shalimar the Clown'', a 2005 novel by Salman Rushdie
* Shalimar Fox, a character in Mutant X (TV series), ''Mutant X'' (TV series)
* A town in Song of Solomon (novel), ''Song of Solomon'' (novel), a 1977 novel by Toni Morrison
Other uses
* , a Royal Navy ship
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Shalimar (perfume)
Shalimar is a perfume originally created by Jacques Guerlain in 1921 for French perfume and cosmetics house Guerlain. In production continuously since 1925, Shalimar is currently a flagship product for Guerlain.
History
Shalimar was created b ...
, the flagship fragrance of perfume house Guerlain
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Frank Coutts Hendry, used the pseudonym Shalimar
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