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In computing, dir (directory) is a command in various computer operating systems used for computer file and directory listing. [1] It is one of the basic commands to help navigate the file system . The command is usually implemented as an internal command in the command-line interpreter ( shell ).
Dir was a princely state in a subsidiary alliance with the British Raj, located within the North-West Frontier Province.Following the Partition of British India, Dir remained independent and unaligned until February 1948, when the Dominion of Pakistan accepted its accession.
Dir, Pakistan, a town in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan; Dir (union council), an administrative unit in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan Dir (princely state), a former princely state in the North-West Frontier Province, incorporated into Pakistan in 1969
Dir campaign refers to a conflict that took place in Dir state, originally an insurrection by locals against the rule of Nawab Jahan Khan that lead to the death of 200 soldiers of Nawab and unknown number of locals. This insurrection antagonized Pakistani government and it tried to negotiate the resignation of Nawab but no settlement was reached.
The history of Islam being practised by the Dir clan goes back 1400 years. In Zeila, a Dir city, a mosque called Masjid al-Qiblatayn is known as the site of where early companions of the Prophet established a mosque shortly after the first Migration to Abyssinia [12] By the 7th century, a large-scale conversion to Islam was taking place in the Somali peninsula, first spread by the Dir clan ...
Dir is a region in northwestern Pakistan in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in the foothills of the Himalayas.Before the independence of Pakistan, Dir was a princely state, and it remained so until 1969 when it was abolished by a presidential declaration, [1] and the Dir District was created the following year.
Dir was founded in the 17th century. [citation needed] Mullā Ilyās, a 17th-century holy man, is said to have been the founder. [1] It was the capital of the former princely state of Dir, until its abolition in 1969. [citation needed] The former royal palace is on a hill above the city. Dir was then the capital of the Dir District.
Askold and Dir (Haskuldr or Hǫskuldr and Dyr or Djur in Old Norse; died in 882), mentioned in both the Primary Chronicle, [1] the Novgorod First Chronicle, [2] and the Nikon Chronicle, [3] were the earliest known rulers of Kiev. [4] [better source needed] Map of Kievan principality in the 9th century Map of Europe in 814