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Sialkot was then quickly laid siege to by Khokhar tribesmen, [37] and Khusrau Malik, [35] the last Ghaznavid sultan, though he was defeated during Ghauri's return to Punjab in 1186. [36] [37] In the 1200s, Sialkot was the only area of western Punjab that was ruled by the Mamluk Sultanate in Delhi. [38]
Soon, the Sikhs surrounded Sialkot and started a blockade from supplies coming from Kabul to Sialkot. The blockade was very effective as it started to starve the Afghan army who were running low on food. The food shortage made the Durranis desperate to escape from Sialkot. Soon, Timur Shah Durrani found an opening and led his army out of ...
Hari Ram Gupta, History of the Sikhs: Sikh Domination of the Mughal Empire, 1764–1803, second ed., Munshiram Manoharlal (2000) ISBN 81-215-0213-6; Hari Ram Gupta, History of the Sikhs: The Sikh Commonwealth or Rise and Fall of the Misls, rev. ed., Munshiram Manoharlal (2001) ISBN 81-215-0165-2
The Sialkot was ruled by Maurya Empire, the Indo-Greek kingdom, Kushan Empire, Gupta Empire, White Huns, Kushano-Hephthalites, the Arabs and Hindu Shahi kingdoms. In 997 CE, Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi took over the Ghaznavid dynasty empire established by his father, Sultan Sebuktegin , In 1005 he conquered the Shahis in Kabul in 1005 CE and ...
Sialkot (Punjabi, Urdu: سيالكوٹ) is a city located in Punjab, Pakistan.It is the capital of the Sialkot District and the 12th most populous city in Pakistan. [10] [5] The boundaries of Sialkot are joined by Jammu in the north east, the districts of Narowal in the southeast, Gujranwala in the southwest and Gujrat in the northwest.
Menander I's capital was at Sagala in the Punjab (present-day Sialkot). Following the death of Menander, most of his empire splintered and Indo-Greek influence was considerably reduced. Many new kingdoms and republics east of the Ravi River began to mint new coinage depicting military victories. [ 20 ]
Jasrat Khokhar [a] (c. 1375 – 1442), also known as Jasrath Khokhar, was a 15th-century Punjabi Muslim general, chieftain and warlord who ruled Sialkot and the area comprising Pothohar after escaping from Timurid captivity and acquiring his father, Shaikha Khokhar's estate in 1410 until his death in 1442. [3]
Sagala, Sakala (Sanskrit: साकला), or Sangala (Ancient Greek: Σάγγαλα) was a city in ancient India, [1] [2] which was the predecessor of the modern city of Sialkot that is located in what is now Pakistan's northern Punjab province.