| has gloss | eng: The Jaintia Kingdom extended from the east of the Shillong Plateau of present-day Meghalaya in north-east India, into the plains to the south, and north to the Barak River valley in Assam, India. The capital, Jaintiapur, now ruined, was located on the plains at the foot of the Jaintia Hills; it appears there may have been a summer capital at Nartiang in the Jaintia Hills, but little remains of it now apart from a Durga temple and a nearby site with many megalithic structures. The name Jaintia is derived from Zantein or Synteng, the collective name of different tribal groups from the region. The Syntengs, Pnar and War, speak Mon-Khmer languages that are related to Khasi. Much of what is today the Sylhet region of Bangladesh was at one time under the jurisdiction of the Jaintia king. |