.jpg) Himalayan territories unified by the Gorkhas | |
| Native name | नेपालको एकीकरण |
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| Date | 26 September 1744 – 4 March 1816 (71 years, 5 months and 7 days) |
| Location |  Kingdom of Nepal |
| Type | National unification |
| Outcome | The Gurkhas conquered the petty kingdoms and unified Nepal |
| History of Nepal |
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The unification of Nepal (Nepali: नेपालको एकीकरण) was the process of building the modern Nepalese state, from fractured petty kingdoms including the Baise Rajya (22 Kingdoms) and the Chaubisi Rajya (24 Kingdoms), which began in 1743 AD (1799 BS).[1] The prominent figure in the unification campaign was Prithvi Narayan Shah, King of Gorkha. On 25 September 1768, he officially announced the creation of the Kingdom of Nepal and moved his capital from Gorkha to the city of Kathmandu.[2]
The Shah dynasty that Prithvi Narayan Shah founded would go on to absorb the various warring kingdoms that once occupied parts of present-day Nepal into a nation-state that stretched up to the Sutlej River in the west and Sikkim-Jalpaiguri in the east.[3][4] Before the Gorkha Empire, the Kathmandu Valley was known as Nepal after the Nepal Mandala, the region's name in Nepal Bhasa.
- ^ Mulmi, Amish Raj. "The Making of the Gorkha Empire: Part I – Land". The Record. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ Pradhan 1991, p. 105.
- ^ Pradhan 1991, p. 153.
- ^ Whelpton 2005, p. 35.