Geography
The Punjab region was a region straddling India and the Afghan Durrani Empire. The following modern-day political divisions made up the historical Sikh Empire:
- Punjab region till Multan in south
- Punjab, Pakistan
- Parts of Punjab, India
- Parts of Himachal Pradesh, India
- Jammu, India
- Kashmir, conquered in 1818, India/Pakistan/China
- Gilgit, Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan. (Occupied from 1842–1846)
- Khyber Pass, Afghanistan/Pakistan
- Peshawar, Pakistan (taken in 1818, retaken in 1834)
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan (documented from Hazara (taken in 1818, again in 1836) to Bannu)
Jamrud, Khyber Agency, Pakistan. District was the westernmost limit of the Sikh Empire. The westward expansion was stopped in the Battle of Jamrud, in which the Afghans managed to kill the prominent Sikh general Hari Singh Nalwa in an offensive, though the Sikhs successfully held their position at their Jamrud fort.
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