Peshawar, Pakhtoonkhwa , Pakistan

Peshawar,






Peshawar,is the capital of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa- It is. the administrative/centre, The Kushan king Kanishka- moved the capital; from Pushkalavati {now called Charsadda in the Peshawar valley} to, Purushapura in the 2nd century CE; and in the eighteenth century' the Durrani king, Timur Shah Durrani; made Peshawar, the winter capital of Afghanistan- and it remained as the- winter capital until the Sikhs rose to power in the early nineteenth century/ The current name (Peshawar) may derive from the Sanskrit Purushapura { meaning "city of men } and is known as Pekhawar or Peshawar in .Pashto and Pishor in Hindko, The area originally belonged to Gandhara/ and the eastern Iranian tribes. of Scythian origin and later became part of -the Kushan Empire. It gave its name to the { Peshawari } naan bread/ one of the diverse types of naan common, in the curry houses of Great Britain/ Briefly it also witnessed some Greek influence after which it saw the /Arab conquest and rise of Islam. Today it is one of the prime cities of Pakistan west of the river Indus;