What the records say
- When
- 3 Dec 1001
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 34.01° N, 71.57° E
- Description
- 1001 Ghaznavid–Hindu Shahi battle
Battle of Peshawar (1001)
1001 battle in the Ghaznavid campaigns in India
The Battle of Peshawar was fought on 27 November 1001 between the Ghaznavid army of Mahmud of Ghazni and the Hindu Shahi army of Jayapala, near Peshawar. Jayapala was defeated and captured, and as a result of the humiliation of the defeat, he later immolated himself in a funeral pyre. This is the first of many major battles in the expansion of the Ghaznavid Empire into the Indian subcontinent by Mahmud.
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