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== History ==
"After the Afghan-Sikh battle at Jamrud in 1837, [[Dost Mohammed|Amir Dost Muhammad Khan]] asserted his claims to supremacy over the Khyber region by erecting the fort at Ali Masjid and placing a permanent garrison in it."<br>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iqkiRvaDThgC&pg=PA168&dq=Ali+Masjid+Fort&as_brr=3&ei=dQLOSZqfFZmGzgSyypz-Dw State and Tribe in 19th Century Afghanistan] Google Books
==Spelling variants==
Ali Masjid, Ali Musjid
== Military Actions ==
== External Links ==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Masjid Ali Masjid] Wikipedia*[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/v/019pho000000487u00025000.html Photograph: View from a little below the fort [at Ali Masjid<nowiki>]</nowiki> 1878] by John Burke. British Library Online Gallery (retrieved 29 May 2014)*[http://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/holmes/http---example-com-exhibits-sh/item/17641 Afghan War Series 1919. Print 58. A general view of Ali Musjid from the fort] . Ali Musjid, also known as Ali Masjid, is a village in the eastern end of the Khyber Pass about 20 miles west of Peshawar. Randolph Bezzant Holmes Photographs. Duke University Libraries (retrieved 29 May 2014)*[http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1963-09-633-5 Photograph: Ali Masjid, 1919]. From an [http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/results.php?searchType=simple&acc=1963-09-633 album] of 43 photographs, 1920 (c)-1925 compiled by Major G A Clarke, 12th Pioneers (The Kelat-i-Ghilzie Regiment). National Army Museum (retrieved 29 May 2014)*[http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/afghanistan/khyber-ropeway-at-ali-masjid/ Postcard: Alimusjid Fort with Ropeway, Khyber Pass] c 1919. andrewgrantham.co.uk (retrieved 29 May 2014)
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[[Category:Forts]]
[[Category:Forts in Bengal Presidency]]
