Timeline of Peshawar
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
^ a 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
^ 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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^ 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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^ "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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"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 . {{cite book }}
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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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