Lohara, Punjab
Lohara لوہارا | |
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Village | |
  Lohara لوہارا  Lohara لوہارا | |
| Coordinates: 32°22′19″N 75°02′02″E / 32.37194°N 75.03389°E | |
| Country |  Pakistan |
| Province | Punjab |
| District | Narowal |
| Tehsil | Zafarwal |
| Elevation | 236 m (774 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
Lohara is a village in Zafarwal Tehsil, Narowal District of Punjab province of Pakistan.[1] It is in the Basantar River Valley, west of the river on the Darmaan-Shakargarh Road from Shakargarh to Zafarwal.[2] Lohara is located northeast of Zafarwal, one kilometre east of the village of Hamral and 3.5 km west of the village of Nahr.
History
[edit]The area around Lohara was incorporated within the Durrani Empire about 1747. It was briefly part of the Maratha Empire from 1758 to 1761, when it was retaken by the Durrani.[3] In 1798, it was transferred to Ranjit Singh of Kashmir, along with what was to become the Narowal District and other lands, by Zaman Shah Durrani as a gift after Singh had defeated Durrani's army and conquered the area. In 1821, Ranjit Singh gave administration of the Shakargarh area to Amir Singh Sandhanwalia as a jagir. When the British took over Punjab in 1848, the area was included into Gurdaspur District. In 1947, under the Radcliffe Award after the partition of India, the area was transferred to Pakistan and attached to Sialkot District. It was transferred as part of Narowal tehsil into the new Narowal District in 1991. Zafarwal tehsil was created in 2009.[4] Lohara has been a union council since the 2016 local bodies election.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Lohāra (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- ^ Pathankot, India, 1501A, NI43-15, India, Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan (topographic map 1:250000), Joint Operations Graphic (Air), Defense Mapping Agency, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, United States Air Force, December 1956
- ^ See Chapter VI of The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan Archived 2011-07-10 at the Wayback Machine by H. G. Keene.
- ^ "Zafarwal to become tehsil on July 1". Dawn. 2 February 2009. Retrieved May 25, 2010.