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- According to the historian Tertius Chandler, Peshawar had a population of 120,000 in the year 100 BCE, making it the seventh most populous city in the world.
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Ancient Peshawar's population was estimated to be 120,000, which would make it the seventh-most populous city in the world at the time. [54] [42] As a devout Buddhist, the emperor built the grand Kanishka Mahavihara monastery. [55]
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Peshawar, city, capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, northern Pakistan. The city lies just west of the Bara River, a tributary of the Kabul River, near the Khyber Pass. It was once the capital of the ancient Buddhist kingdom of Gandhara. Its inhabitants are mostly Pashtun.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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 has for centuries been a center of trade between West Asia, Central Asia, and the Indian ...
Jul 10, 2020 · The sheer magnitude of this number can be made by the fact that in 1891, almost 2,000 years later, Peshawar’s population was a mere 63,079 people. It took it another seven decades to surpass the old mark when in 1961 the population was somewhere near 166,000.
- Muhammad Huzaifa
Sep 7, 2006 · Peshawar, ancient Purshapur or Purushapura in Sanskrit, or Kanishkapura, was the capital of the Great Kushan Empire ( c .AD 60-225), extending from Central Asia to the Bay of Bengal. As Gandhara was the second holiest place for Buddhists and as it was responsible for the spread of Buddhism to China, Korea and Japan (the present Buddhism of ...
Oct 30, 2022 · In 1971, East Pakistan broke away and became an independent Bangladesh. Pakistan’s national capital is Islamabad, and it has four provincial capitals: Peshawar, Lahore, Karachi, and Quetta. This essay encompasses Peshawar, both the historical and the contemporary, through Anglophone creative writing by Pakistanis.
Population: 95,147. 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 23 April: Qissa Khwani Bazaar massacre. Novelty cinema opens.
