- Phalia
Phalia is a city situated in Mandi Bahauddin District, Punjab,
Pakistan . The population of Phalia was calculated to be 25,914 in 2007 (21,025 in 1998).cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title =Phalia | work =World Gazetteer | publisher = | date = | url = http://world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gpro&lng=en&dat=32&geo=-1878&srt=npan&col=aohdq&geo=440773358| format = | doi = | accessdate =2007-10-28 ]History
Alexander the Great and his army crossed the Jhelum in326 BC at theBattle of the Hydaspes River where he defeated the Indian king,Porus . According to Arrian ("Anabasis", 29), he built a city "on the spot whence he started to cross the river Hydaspes", which he named "Bukephala " (or "Bucephala ") to honour his famous horseBukephalus orBucephalus which was buried in Jalalpur Sharif. It is thought that ancient Bukephala was near the site of modernJhelum City . According to a historian of Gujrat district, Mansoor Behzad Butt, Bukephalus was buried in Jalalpur Sharif, but the people ofMandi Bahauddin , a district close to Jehlum, believed that their tehsil Phalia was named after Bucephalus, Alexander's dead horse. They say that the name Phalia was the distortion of the word Bucephala.but it comes into the history books about the jat clan that the phalia was actually the name of one of the elderly of tarar family i.e phalia tarar.after going through the family tree of tarar clan it was found that phalia tarar existed,so it is evident that this name does not come from horse,but from a famous jat of the tarar clan.Geography and climate
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