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Peshawar is a city high in the mountainous border of the Indian subcontinent. It maintains it's place by it's control of the strategic Khyber Pass, an area |
Peshawar is a city high in the mountainous border of the Indian subcontinent. It maintains it's place by it's control of the strategic Khyber Pass, an area |
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After Independence it passed to the control of Pakistan who used it much in the way England did. The tribes in the area remain much as they were, and recent wars make a listening post here imperative. Interestingly a Pakistani assigned here might feel his life was not so different from an English officer three generations before. And both might have much in common with a Sogdian or a Kushan, or a Sikh soldier defending this important post high up in the war-torn frontier. In many ways it is still the same town it has been for ages. |
After Independence it passed to the control of Pakistan who used it much in the way England did. The tribes in the area remain much as they were, and recent wars make a listening post here imperative. Interestingly a Pakistani assigned here might feel his life was not so different from an English officer three generations before. And both might have much in common with a Sogdian or a Kushan, or a Sikh soldier defending this important post high up in the war-torn frontier. In many ways it is still the same town it has been for ages. |
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*[[Barbarian Tribe]]: All the tribes around it at least according to whomever owns Peshawar. Some might well meet the description. |
* [[Barbarian Tribe]]: All the tribes around it at least according to whomever owns Peshawar. Some might well meet the description. |
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*[[City of Adventure]] |
* [[City of Adventure]] |
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*[[City of Spies]] |
* [[City of Spies]] |
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*[[The Empire]]: Whoever controls it. |
* [[The Empire]]: Whoever controls it. |
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*[[Reassigned to Antarctica]]: Subverted. Oddly enough British officers considered this a plum spot. It was hardly comfortable. But the ambitious ones could count on action and hence promotions. |
* [[Reassigned to Antarctica]]: Subverted. Oddly enough British officers considered this a plum spot. It was hardly comfortable. But the ambitious ones could count on action and hence promotions. |
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''Belisarius Series'' by Eric Flint and David Drake: Among the many threads in this alternate history, a Kushan warlord marries a Roman noblewoman, sets himself up as king in the city of Peshawar and revives the Kushan Empire. |
''Belisarius Series'' by Eric Flint and David Drake: Among the many threads in this alternate history, a Kushan warlord marries a Roman noblewoman, sets himself up as king in the city of Peshawar and revives the Kushan Empire. |
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