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{{Locations_Infobox[[Image:Nwfp_map.jpg|presidency=Bengalthumb|image=200px|coordinates= Map of the province]] |altitude= |presentname= Also seen as '''North -West Frontier Province''', '''Northwest Frontier Province''', '''N W F Province''' or '''NWFP'''.|stateprovince= |country= Pakistan}}'''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.
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== History ==
[[Punitive Expeditions:Category:North West Frontier Campaigns|North West Frontier Campaigns]]
==Capital==
* [[Peshawar]]
==LocationsDistricts==It consisted of five districts.* [[Bannu District]]* [[Dera Ismail Khan District]]* [[Hazara|Hazara District]]* [[Kohat District]]* [[Peshawar District]] ==Cities/Towns==
* [[Abbottabad]]
* [[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==
The following princely states were located in the region and included into it after Partition.
* [[Amb State]]
* [[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 ==
*[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
*[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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