Harappa

[ huh-rap-uh ]

noun

1. a village in Pakistan: site of successive cities of the Indus valley civilization.
2. a Bronze Age culture that flourished in the Indus valley.

Harappa

/ həˈræpə /

noun

1. an ancient city in the Punjab in NW Pakistan: one of the centres of the Indus civilization that flourished from 2500 to 1700 bc ; probably destroyed by Indo-European invaders

Example Sentences

In the northwest of the Indian subcontinent, the Indus civilization flourished in the third millennium bc, with remarkable cities at Harappa and Mohenjo-daro that featured brick houses, advanced drainage and a large public bath.

From Nature

One of my favorite moments in Tokyo occurred late one afternoon at a smaller adventure playground, Komazawa Harappa, a long sliver of space in a tight residential neighborhood, masked from the street by a simple hedge.

From The New Yorker

The biggest cities here were Harappa and Mohenjo Daro, where some 80,000 people are believed to have lived.

From BBC

In his 2011 book “The Harappa Files,” Banerjee describes the country as one “on the brink of great hormonal changes . . . a fast capitalizing society that suffers from bipolar disorder.”

From The New Yorker

But mostly, they celebrated the building of a new, scientific highway to Harappa.

From BBC