The following is a
timeline of the
history of the city of
Peshawar ,
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ,
Pakistan .
Prior to 19th century
19th century
20th century
1901
1906 - Victoria Hall built.
1907 -
Peshawar Museum founded.
1909 - Ancient Buddhist
Kanishka casket discovered by archaeologists in Shah-ji-Dheri near city.
1913 -
Islamia College established.
1922 -
Kapoor Haveli (residence) built.
1925 - Khaiber railway built.
1930
1932 - Khyber Mail newspaper begins publication.
[18]
1934 - Landsdowne cinema opens.
[17]
1936 - Radio station begins broadcasting.
[19]
1939 - Al Falah newspaper begins publication.
[20]
1941
Al-Jamiat-e-Sarhad newspaper begins publication.
[20]
Population: 130,967.
[7]
Independence: since 1947
21st century
See also
References
^
Jocquim Hayward Stocqueler (1848), Oriental Interpreter and Treasury of East India Knowledge , London: C. Cox,
OCLC
3145677 ,
OL
13521975M
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b
"Peshawar" . Pakistan .
Lonely Planet . Retrieved 17 August 2013 .
^
a
b Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World , New York: Columbia University Press,
OL
6112221M
^ "Life and times of Peshawar's Kaka Ram". Qissa Khwani . 21 June 2012. Originally published by The News on Sunday, 17 June 2012
^ Mill, John Stuart (1858),
Memorandum of the Improvements in the Administration of India During the Last Thirty Years: And the Petition of the East-India Company to Parliament , East India Company
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a
b
c
d Directorate of Information Technology, Web Portal Management Cell.
"About Us: Town & Places" . Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Official Gateway to Government . Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Retrieved 17 August 2013 .
^
"Forgotten in the 'lost-and-found' of our heritage" . Daily Times . 6 May 2006.
^
a
b
"Curtain going down on cinema culture in Peshawar" . Daily Times . Pakistan. 2 February 2009.
^
a
b
c
d
"Peshawar (Pakistan) Newspapers" . WorldCat . USA:
Online Computer Library Center . Retrieved 17 August 2013 .
^
"Bollywood's Shah Rukh Khan, Dilip Kumar and the Peshawar club" . BBC News . 28 November 2012.
^
a
b
c
d
e
f "Pakistan". Far East and Australasia 2003 . Regional Surveys of the World.
Europa Publications . 2002. p. 1160+.
ISBN
9781857431339 .
^
"Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 1955 . New York:
Statistical Office of the United Nations .
^
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs , Statistical Office (1976).
"Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 1975 . New York. pp. 253–279. {{
cite book }}
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link )
^
a
b
c
d Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (2006),
Afghans in Peshawar: Migration, settlements and social networks , Case Study Series,
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
^
"Peshawar a hot-bed of spies and plotters" .
New Sunday Times . Malaysia. 2 November 1980.
^
"Nishtar Hall to host musical concert today after five years" .
Daily Times . Lahore. May 27, 2008.
^
"Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 2011 .
United Nations Statistics Division . 2012.
^ Farhan Janjua (5 December 2008).
"Pakistan: Deadly Bomb Blast in Peshawar" .
Global Voices .
^
"Taliban attack the tomb of Rahman Baba in Peshawar" . Let Us Build Pakistan . 8 March 2009.
^
"Bomb blast hits Pakistan protest" . Al Jazeera English. 19 April 2010.
^
World Health Organization (2016),
Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database , Geneva, archived from
the original on March 28, 2014 {{
citation }}
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link )
^
"Closure: Final page turns on Saeed Book Bank Peshawar" .
Express Tribune . Karachi. 24 February 2011.
^
"Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants" , Demographic Yearbook – 2018 , United Nations
Bibliography
Published in 19th century
Edward Thornton (1844), "Peshawer", Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India on the Northwest , London: W.H. Allen,
hdl :
2027/nyp.33433000638944 ,
OCLC
6141828
E.G.G. Hastings (1878),
Report on the Settlement of the Peshawar District of the Punjab , Lahore {{
citation }}
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"Towns, Municipalities, and Cantonments" . Gazetteer of the Peshawar District . 1883. p. 287+.
OCLC
663560992 .
David Ross (1883),
"Peshawar" , Land of the Five Rivers and Sindh: Sketches Historical and Descriptive , London: Chapman and Hall
Edward Balfour (1885),
"Peshawur" , Cyclopaedia of India (3rd ed.), London: B. Quaritch
Edward Thornton (1886),
"Peshawar" , in Roper Lethbridge and Arthur N. Wollaston (ed.), Gazetteer of the Territories under the Government of the Viceroy of India , London: W. H. Allen & Co.,
OCLC
710600
Published in 20th century
The Punjab, its Feudatories, and the North-West Frontier Province . Census of India, 1901. Vol. 17, Part 2. Simla. 1902.{{
cite book }}
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Part 1
"Peshawar City" , Imperial Gazetteer of India (New ed.), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908
"Peshawar" .
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 21 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 282–283.
"Peshawar" , Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon (8th ed.), London:
J. Murray , 1911
"Peshawar" . Encyclopaedia of Islam . Leiden:
E.J. Brill . 1927. p. 1066.
ISBN
9789004097926 .
OCLC
39715711 .
Peshawar District Gazetteer , Lahore, 1933{{
citation }}
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Ahmad Hasan Dani (1969). Peshawar, Historic City of the Frontier . Peshawar.
OCLC
556485417 . {{
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Schellinger and Salkin, ed. (1996). "Peshawar". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania . UK: Routledge. p. 669+.
ISBN
9781884964046 .
Published in 21st century
Maneesha Tikekar (2004), "Peshawar", Across the Wagah: an Indian's sojourn in Pakistan , New Delhi: Promilla & Co. in association with Bibliophile South Asia, New Jersey,
ISBN
8185002347
C.C. Davies; C.E. Bosworth (2007). "Peshawar". In
C. E. Bosworth (ed.). Historic Cities of the Islamic World . Leiden:
Koninklijke Brill . p. 426+.
ISBN
9789004153882 .
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