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Dera Ghazi Khan
Unknown artist. Digitized by the Panjab Digital Library. · Public domain · Wikimedia
City or fort

Dera Ghazi Khan

ਡੇਰਾ ਗ਼ਾਜ਼ੀ ਖ਼ਾਨڈیرا غازی خان

Trans-Indus district on the Sulaiman frontier, under direct Sikh rule from 1831.

Dera Ghazi Khan is a town on the west bank of the Indus in the south of the Punjab, at the foot of the Sulaiman range.

It came under direct Sikh rule in 1831 and was governed from Multan by Sawan Mal. The shrine of Sakhi Sarwar is in the hills to the west.

It is now a city of Pakistani Punjab.

Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab, Pakistan

People

Sakhi Sarwar (Lakhdata Pir)
Sakhi Sarwar (Lakhdata Pir)12th century

Saint whose shrine in the Sulaiman foothills near Dera Ghazi Khan drew vast numbers of Hindu, Sikh and Muslim pilgrims. His followers, the Sultanis, were found across Punjab before 1947.

In the world's museums

4 objects
Troops of a field force crossing a river in Dera Ghazi Khan District.Troops of a field force crossing a river in Dera Ghazi Khan District.Wikimedia Commons · Indian Army official photographer ↗AngarkhaAngarkhac.1855 · Dera Ghazi Khan© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗TrousersTrousersca. 1855 · Dera Ghazi Khan© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗Indian Desert Gerbil (Meriones hurrianae)Indian Desert Gerbil (Meriones hurrianae)29 Jan 1964 · Dera Ghazi Khan District, Dera Ghazi Khan Canal, 2 Mi W, On Smithsonian, NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals Division ↗

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