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The Khyber Pass has witnessed the spread of Greek influence into India and the expansion of Buddhism in the opposite direction. [2] Despite military activities, trade continued to thrive there. [2] The Khyber Pass became a critical part of the Silk Road, a major trade route from East Asia to Europe. [4] [5]
Ali Masjid (Pashto and Urdu: علی مسجد) is the narrowest point of the Khyber Pass. It is located in Khyber District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is around 10 miles (16 km) east of the city of Landi Kotal (West of Peshawar) and has an elevation of 3,174 feet (967 m). The width of the Khyber near Ali Masjid was earlier too narrow for ...
An early record was achieved in the 1880s for the sale of the Philadelphia Post Office building for $425,000, then a record for a piece of real estate at auction. [5] Through the 1990s, Freeman's was driven by high volume. The house would sell 50,000 lots a year, at an average of $110 per lot, and make $5.5 million. This changed when the house ...
May. 27, 2014 9:39 AM EDT PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A closed-door auction is getting underway to determine the future of Philadelphia's two largest newspapers. The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia ...
The Carpenters’ Company of the City and County of Philadelphia is the oldest extant craft guild in the United States. Founded in 1724, the Company consists of nearly 200 prominent Philadelphia area architects, building contractors and structural engineers and has had nearly 900 members in its almost three centuries of existence.
Khyber Pass began life as a dirt track, during the early settlement of Auckland in the 1840s. [1] As the road was seen as a dangerous frontier, it was named after the Khyber Pass in modern-day Pakistan, which at the time was glamorised as the frontier of British India. [2] [3] The road, along with Great South Road, was a part of the route used ...
A Khyber Pass copy is a firearm manufactured by cottage gunsmiths in the Khyber Pass region in Pakistan. The area has long had a reputation for producing unlicensed copies of firearms using whatever materials are available; more often than not, railway rails, scrap motor vehicles, and other scrap metal with basic hand tools. [ 1 ]
Khyber, a character from Ben 10: Omniverse; The Khyber, a multipurpose arts centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Khyber Arts Society, which operates the Khyber Institute of Contemporary Art at the above arts centre; Khyber Mail, a daily newspaper that used to be published from Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan