Swat District

Pakistan

Swat District, Pakistan, shares 44 connections with 1360 other places across 14 topics, drawing heavily from history, government, nature, and military subjects. It connects closely with Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Afghanistan. Known in antiquity as Oddiyana, it was a centre of Gandhara civilization, with the Gandhara grave culture traceable to around 1400 BCE along the Swat River. A Dardic sultanate held the valley from the 12th to 16th centuries before the region merged into Pakistan in 1969.

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