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3 unusual facts about Attock Khurd


Attock Khurd

In the spring of 326 BCE Alexander III of Macedon passed into the Punjab (at Ohind, 16 m. above Attock), using a bridge over the Indus constructed by Perdiccas and Hephaestion.

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Attock then finds its name in the history books dating to the rule of Chandragupta's grandson Ashoka, the Emperor of upper India, who had converted to the Buddhist faith.

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In 1813, the Sikh Empire wrested the Attock Fort from the Kingdom of Kabul in the Battle of Attock.



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