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The history of Peshawar is intertwined with the history of the broader Indian subcontinent. The region was known as Puruṣapura in Sanskrit , literally meaning "city of men". [ a ] Being among the most ancient cities of the Indian subcontinent, Peshawar had for centuries been a center of trade between West Asia , Central Asia , and the Indian ...
Peshawar District (Pashto: پېښور ولسوالۍ, Hindko: ضلع پشور, Urdu: ضلع پشاور) is a district in the Peshawar Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located about 160 km west of the Pakistan's capital Islamabad .
127 CE - Purushapura becomes eastern capital of Buddhist kingdom Gandhara (approximate date). 978 CE - Sabaktagin defeats Jayapala. [1]1001 - 27 November: Battle of Peshawar; Mahmud of Ghazni in power.
The population of Peshawar district in 1998 was 2,026,851. [129] The city's annual growth rate is estimated at 3.29% per year, [130] and the 2016 population of Peshawar district is estimated to be 3,405,414. [131] With a population of 1,970,042 according to the 2017 census, Peshawar is the sixth-largest city of Pakistan.
Districts have formed an integral part of civil administration in the subcontinent since colonial times. When the North-West Frontier Province (the former name of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) formed in November 1901, it was divided into five "settled districts": Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan, Hazara, Kohat, and Peshawar, and a "trans-border tract" of land which encompassed five "Political Agencies": Khyber ...
[41] [42] [43] The core of the region of Gandhara was the Peshawar valley and Swat valley, though the cultural influence of "Greater Gandhara" extended across the Indus river to the Taxila region in Potohar Plateau and westwards into the Kabul valley in Afghanistan, and northwards up to the Karakoram range.
The Gandhara Hindko Board is a leading organisation that has been active in the preservation and promotion of the Hindko and culture since 1993. The board was launched in Peshawar in year 1993 to preserve and promote Hindko —the second most spoken of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan.
Following is the list of monuments and archaeological sites in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.A total 85 sites in the province were under the protection of the Federal Government.