Peshawar
Peshawar (Urdu: پشاور ; Pashto: پښور ) is a town of approximately 750.000 inhabitants located at the north of the Pakistan, at the Eastern end of the Passe of Khyber, known under the name of Purushapura in the old India, it was then the capital of the Gandhara. It was also known Greeks under the name of Peukalaotis . It is the capital of the tribes Pashto.
It is about one of the oldest cities of the country, it was during centuries a center of Commerce between the Indian Sous-continent, the Afghanistan and the Central Asia.
The city was an important center of culture of the civilization of the Gandhara as much as Buddhist pilgrimage until the Bouddhisme between declining in the Indian world, decline that it accompanied. The raids of Mahmûd de Ghaznî, at the beginning of the 11th century destroyed all visible traces of the civilization of Gandhara.
Bâbur crossed it in 1526 to leaving on the way the master key for its conquest of India, but these are the descendants which will regild the blazon of the city. It owes its current name - which means “frontier town” - with the emperor moghol Akbar which improved the fortifications and the bazaar of it. Sher Shâh Sûrî connected it to the Bengal by the Grand Trunk Road, one of the major axes of communication of the Indian Sous-continent.
The city is the seat of a university since 1950 and of a museum of art of Gandhara.
It is the capital of two provinces: the Province of the Border-of-North-West and the tribal Areas.
It is a fundamentalist Bastion near to the border afgane.
Simple: Peshawar
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