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'''North West Frontier Province''' was created out of [[Punjab]] in 1901. It was part of the [[Bengal Presidency]] and it is now a province of [[Pakistan]].
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[[Image:Nwfp_map.jpg|thumb|200px|Map of the province]]
Also seen as '''North-West Frontier Province''', '''Northwest Frontier Province''', '''N W F Province''' or '''NWFP'''.
'''North West Frontier Province''' was created out of [[Punjab]] in 1901. It was part of the [[Bengal Presidency]] and it is now a province of [[Pakistan]]. In April 2010, the name of the province was official changed to '''Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa''' by passage of an amendment to the Constitution.
== History ==
[[:Category:North West Frontier Campaigns 1849-1908|North West Frontier Campaigns 1849-1908]]
==Capital==
* [[Peshawar]]
==Districts==
* [[Kohat District]]
* [[Peshawar District]]
==Cities/Towns==
* [[Bannu]]/[[Edwardesabad]]
* [[Chakdara]]
* [[Charsadda]]
* [[Cherat]]
* [[Chitral]]
* [[Dera Ismail Khan]] aka D. I. Khan
* [[Hangu]]
* [[Haripur]]
* [[Karak]]
* [[Khanpur]]
* [[Kohat]]
* [[Lakki Marwat]]
* [[Mardan]]
* [[Nowshera]]
* [[Peshawar]]
* [[Risalpur]]
* [[Swabi]]
* [[Tank]]
==Regions==
* [[Hazara]]
==Princely States==
* [[Chitral State]]
* [[Dir State]]
* [[Phulra State]] (minor)
* [[Swat State]]
==Forts==
* [[Bala Hissar]]
* [[Chakdara Fort]]
* [[Kohat Fort]]
For images see: [http://www.khyber.org/pictures/fortsoffrontier.shtml Forts of the Frontier]
==Passes==
* [[Lowari Pass]]
== External Links links ==*[http://www.khyber.org/publications/ Online articles on the Province]*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_North-West_Frontier_Province#British_era NWF Province - British Era] Wikipedia<br>*[http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~poyntz/India/images/AfghanFrontier.JPG Rootsweb - North West Frontier Map]*[https://kingscollections.org/servingsoldier/collection/sketching-the-afghan-border/ Sketching the Afghan Border] Watercolours and sketches of the North West Frontier Province, India, 1909-1913, by an unknown artist. King’s College London Collections: The Serving Soldier.===Historical books online===*[http://www.archive.org/stream/northwestfrontie00calcuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series. North - West Frontier Province''] 1908 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.280096 ''Gazetteer of the Hazara District 1907'']. A volume in the series ''N W F Province Gazetteers''. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.*''A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of Punjab and North-West Frontier Province'' by H A Rose 1911-1919. Volumes 1 and 3 pdf downloads Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Volume 2 Archive.org.:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1919-glossary-of-the-tribes-and-castes-of-north-west-frontier-provinces-vol-1-by-rose-reprint-s-pdf/ Volume 1] (1919 reprint); [https://archive.org/details/glossaryoftribes03rose Volume 2 A – K] 1911 ; [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1914-glossary-of-tribes-and-castes-of-punjab-and-north-west-frontier-province-vol-3-l-z-by-rose-s-pdf/ Volume 3 L – Z with appendices A -L] 1914.*[https://archive.org/details/provincialgeogra01holluoft ''The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province and Kashmir''] by Sir James Douie 1916 Archive.org. A volume in the series ''Provincial Geographies of India ''*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.280933 ''N W F Province Gazetteers Peshawar District Vol.a 1931'']. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.** An earlier publication: [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35247 ''Gazetteer Of The Peshawar District 1897-98'']. A volume in the series ''Punjab District Gazetteers''. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.*[https://archive.org/details/reportofthenorth029555mbp ''Report of the North West Frontier Province Subjects Committee 1931''] Archive.org*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1942-handbook-to-the-north-west-frontier-including-jhelum-rawalpindi-and-hazara-districts-by-davey-s-pdf/ '' A Handbook to the North-West Frontier including Jhelum Rawalpindi and Hazara Districts''] by Cyril James Davey 1942. Pdf download Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209758 ''The Great Wall of India''] by Ian Hay [John Hay Beith] 1933. Archive.org. The author visited a friend at Chashmai Fort. This is probably a fictional name. The friend worked for an unnamed [[Frontier Corps]].
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