Lahore

Lahore (?????) is a major city in Pakistan and is the capital of the province of Punjab. A native of Lahore is called a Lahori.

History

According to a legend, Lahore was named by Loh (called Luv in Sanskrit), the once ruler, son of Rama, the hero of the Hindu epic Ramayana.

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''Luv'' - Sanskrit - Rama - Hindu - Epic - Ramayana

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The city came under Muslim rule due to the raids of Mahmud of Ghazni, who placed it under the rule of his beloved slave, Malik Ayaz. When Qutb-ud-din Aybak was crowned in 1206 here, he became the first Muslim Sultan of the Indian subcontinent. From 1524 to 1752 Lahore was part of the Mughal Empire.

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Muslim - Mahmud of Ghazni - Malik Ayaz - Qutb-ud-din Aybak - 1206 - Sultan - 1524 - 1752 - Mughal Empire

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During Akbar's rule, Lahore was the capital of the empire from 1584 to 1598. During this time a massive fort, the Lahore Fort, was built on the fundaments of an older fort in the 1560s. This fort was later extended by Jahangir and Shah Jahan.

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Akbar - 1584 - 1598 - Lahore Fort - 1560 - Jahangir - Shah Jahan

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The last of the Mughals, Aurangzeb, ruling from 1658 to 1707, built the city's most famous monuments, the Badshahi Masjid and the Alamgiri Gate next to the Lahore Fort. The Sikhs ruled it in the 18th and 19th centuries, making Lahore the capital of sovereign Punjab. However the last bloody Anglo-Sikh war resulted in very narrow British victory thus bringing Lahore under the rule of the British crown. On partition of British India in 1947 into India and Pakistan, Lahore passed into the newly formed Pakistan.

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Aurangzeb - 1658 - 1707 - Badshahi Masjid - Alamgiri Gate - Lahore Fort - Sikh - British India - 1947

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The famous British author and poet, Joseph Rudyard Kipling, lived in Lahore during the 1880s, where his parents were also working. Kipling began working as an editor for a local newspaper and continued tentative steps into the world of poetry; his first professional sales were in 1883.

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