Peshawar

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker

Contributors: Tom Elliott

Last modified Aug 22, 2018 05:49 PM — History

Ancient Peshawar was a capital of the Gandharan kingdom from the second century AD, when it was known as Purushapura.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/569531631

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
34.0123846, 71.5787458

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Peshawar (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Peshawar (English, modern)
- (पुरूषपुर (Purushapura: Sanskrit, unspecified date range)

Peshawar makes connections with:

None

Peshawar receives connections from:

Gorkhatri located at Peshawar (unspecified date range)

Place type:
settlement

References:

See Further:

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Alternate representations:
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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Peshawar: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/569531631> [accessed: 20 April 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/569531631 |title=Places: 569531631 (Peshawar) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=April 20, 2025 6:07 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}