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, 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 tribu ...
, India; built in 1653
Shalimar may also refer to:
South Asia
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Shalimar Garden, Ghaziabad, an area in Ghaziabad
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Shalimar, Lahore, one of the constituent towns of Lahore, Pakistan
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Shalamar Institute of Health Sciences
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Shalamar Hospital
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Shalamar Medical and Dental College
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Shalimar railway station, serving Howrah and Kolkata
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Shalimar Express, train between Delhi and Jammu Tawi, India
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Shalimar Express (Pakistan), train between Karachi and Lahore
Other places
* Shalimar, alternative name of
Shadmehr, 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 ( ...
, 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" (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 s ...
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: 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 owner and a farmer.
Li ...
* ''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), the flagship fragrance of perfume house Guerlain
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Frank Coutts Hendry
Frank Coutts Hendry OBE, MC (1875–1955) served in the Indian Army Reserve, Merchant Navy, Rangoon Pilot Service, was an Indian Army officer, and author. His Military Cross is in the Royal Museums Greenwich collections. Several of his books ...
, used the pseudonym Shalimar
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