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Definition of: Peshawar
(pə·shä′wər, pā′shä·vər)
1. A commissioners' division of northern West Pakistan, near Afghanistan; 27,563 square miles.
2. The chief city of this division, anciently, a Greco–Buddhist cultural center; capital of North–West Frontier Province, British India, 1901–47; capital of North–West Frontier Province, West Pakistan, 1947–55.
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