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'''Abbottabad''' was a town in [[Hazara District]], [[North West Frontier Province]].
[[Image:Abbottabad_night_nwfp.jpg|thumb|200px|The city at night]] '''Kakul (Kakool)''' is situated 5 km northeast of Abbottabad. "In the spring of 1902 the English brought a thousand South African Boer prisoners to Kakul. The site was retained as a military camp."<ref> Google Books Snippet search result ''Pieces of green: the sociology of change in Pakistan, 1964-1974'' by Akbar S. Ahmed – 1977</ref> See [[POW Camps in India#Boer War| POW Camps in India-Boer War]]
==Name origin==
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/xii/mode/1up James Abbott] Dictionary of Indian Biography 1906
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbottabad_%28poem%29 Abbott's poem] Wikipedia
== References ==
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[[Category:Locations]]
[[Category:Cities, towns and villages in Bengal Presidency]]
