Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Bala Hissar (Pashto/Urdu/Persian: قلعه بالا حصار) is one of the most historic places of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The word Bala Hissar is from Dari Persian, meaning, "elevated or high fort". The name was given by the Afghan Pashtun King Timur Shah Durrani (1773–1793), who used the fort as the winter capital of the Afghan Durrani Empire, with the summer capital being in Kabul. The Sikh empire who conquered Peshawar in the early 19th century named it Samir Garh in 1834 but the name did not become popular.The Fort has been the headquarters of the Frontier Corps since 1949."@en }
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- Bala_Hissar,_Peshawar abstract "Bala Hissar (Pashto/Urdu/Persian: قلعه بالا حصار) is one of the most historic places of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The word Bala Hissar is from Dari Persian, meaning, "elevated or high fort". The name was given by the Afghan Pashtun King Timur Shah Durrani (1773–1793), who used the fort as the winter capital of the Afghan Durrani Empire, with the summer capital being in Kabul. The Sikh empire who conquered Peshawar in the early 19th century named it Samir Garh in 1834 but the name did not become popular.The Fort has been the headquarters of the Frontier Corps since 1949.".