Prithvi Narayan Shah unifies Nepal
The king of Gorkha conquers the Kathmandu Valley
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Prithvi Narayan Shah, ruler of the small hill state of Gorkha, fought his neighbours for a quarter of a century and in 1768–1769 took the cities of the Kathmandu Valley. Kathmandu became the capital of the united kingdom, and his Shah dynasty ruled Nepal until 2008.
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