Peshawar or Peshawur (84), a town on the Indian frontier, and centre of trade with Afghanistan, is 10 m. from the entrance of the Khyber Pass, on the Kabul River, and though ill-fortified is a bulwark of the empire, being provided with a large garrison of infantry and artillery.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Peschiera * Peshito