Bala Hissar (other)

	Bala Hissar (other) Bala Hissar, Bala Hisar or Balahisar may refer to: * Bala Hissar, Kabul, a fortress in Kabul, Afghanistan * Bala Hissar, Peshawar, a fortress in Peshawar, Pakistan * Bala Hissar, Mussoorie, a place in Mussoorie, India * Bala Hisar, Iran, a village in Iran * Balahesar, a village in Samangan Province, Afghanistan {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Bala Hissar, Kabul Bala Hissar () was an ancient fortress located in the south of the old city of Kabul, Afghanistan. The estimated date of construction is around the 5th century AD. Bala Hissar sits to the south of the modern city centre at the tail end of the Kuh-e-Shēr Darwāzah (lion door) mountain. The Walls of Kabul, which are high and thick, start at the fortress and follow the mountain ridge in a sweeping curve down to the river. It sports a set of gates for access to the fortress. The Kōh-e Shēr Darwāzah mountain is behind the fort. It was destroyed by the British in 1880. Bala Hissar was originally divided into two parts: The lower fortress, containing the stables, barracks and three royal palaces, and the upper fortress (the actual fort with the name Bala Hissar) housing the armory and the dungeon of Kabul, known as the "Black Pit" (the Siyah Chal). History The origins of the Bala Hissar fortress are obscure. Pre- Kushan pottery as well as Indo-Greek and Achaemenid coins h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Bala Hissar, Peshawar Bala Hissar (Pashto/Urdu/Hindko language, Hindko: ), also spelt Bala Hisar, is an historic fortress located in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. First mentioned by 7th-century explorer Xuanzang, the fort was used as a royal residence for the Durrani Empire since 1747, when the Afghan king, Ahmad Shah Durrani, conquered Peshawar. The Maratha Empire, Marathas briefly occupied it after capturing Peshawar in 1758 but it was soon retaken by the Afghans. The Sikh Empire, Sikhs destroyed and reconstructed the fort after Battle of Nowshera, capturing Peshawar in March 1823. In 1849, the British East India Company reconstructed the fort's outer walls. The fort now serves as headquarters for Pakistan's Frontier Corps. Etymology The word ''Bālā Hissār'' () is from Dari, Dari Persian, meaning "elevated or high fort." According to historian Hussain Khan, this name was given by the Afghan Emperor Timur Shah Durrani. In 1834, the Sikhs named the fort ''Samīr Gaṛh'' or ''Sameer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Bala Hissar, Mussoorie Bala may refer to: Films * ''Bala'' (1976 film), an English-language dance documentary * ''Bala'' (2002 film), a Tamil-language action film * ''Bala'' (2019 film), a Hindi-language black comedy Life forms Bala shark (''Balantiocheilos melanopterus''), a small freshwater fish of Southeast Asia ''Sida cordifolia'' (or bala), an Indian medicinal subshrub People and characters * Bala (name), list of people so named Princess Bala, from 1998 animated film ''Antz'' Bala, from the ''Devi'' comic book Places Africa * Bala, Senegal Asia Bal'a, West Bank, Palestine Bala, Ankara, Turkey * Bala, Nepal * Bala, Russia, a selo in Sakha Republic * Bala, India, in Allahabad * Bala, Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, India Bala, Ahor, Rajasthan, India Europe Bala, Gwynedd, Wales Bala Lake, Wales' largest natural lake Bala Series of geologic beds Bala, Mehedinți, Oltenia, Romania Băla (), Mureș, Transylvania, Romania North America Bala, Kansas, United States Bala Cynw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Bala Hisar, Iran Balut Hesar (, also Romanized as Balūţ Ḩeşār and Balooţ Ḩeşār; also known as Bālā Ḩeşār and Bala Hisār) is a village in Kafsh Kanan Rural District, in the Central District of Bahmai County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort .... At the 2006 census, its population was 28, in 6 families. References Populated places in Bahmai County {{Bahmai-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]