Kohat district of KPK province of Pakistan
Short brief history of Kohat district of KPK province of Pakistan
Kohat is a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhawa province of Pakistan.
The decisive engagement which made the Bangashes masters of the Kohat
valley is said to have been fought near Muhammadzai. Local traditions
describe the battle as having lasted day and night for three days, till
at last a youth in white appeared on the scene shouting "Dai, Dai, Dai,
Sam de Bangasho; Ghar de Orakzo," which, being translated, means "It is,
it is, it is, the plain of the Bangashes; the hill of the Orakzais."
This legend is supposed by the Bangashes to satisfactorily dispose of
any claims of the Orakzais to proprietary rights in the Kohat or
Miranzai valleys. According to another tradition the Kohat valley before
the Bangash invasion was occupied, not by Orakzais, but by the tribes
of the Gabris, Safis and Maujaris, who are not now to be traced. Whoever
the original inhabitants may have been they now entirely disappeared.
They were either exterminated, or more probably they were incorporated
with the Bangash settlers, at first as Hamsayahs till in process of time
they became indistinguishable from the real Bangashes. A fort
constructed by the British army stands near the centre of the town.
Little is known about the fort.
The original settlements of the Bangashes were in the Kuram valley. Miranzais, Samilzais and Baizais were all located there. The Baizais, whose summer quarters were at
Ziran in Kuram, used to move during the winter to the Kohat plain, much
as the Waziris and Ghilzais now do. After a time they quarrelled with
the inhabitants of the country. Being unable to cope with them alone,
they got the men of Upper Miranzai and Hangu to join them, and with
their assistance conquered the country, which has been since known as
Baizai. In dividing the tract the Hangu and Miranzai confederates got
allotments which their descendants still hold.
As the Bangashes took possession of these lower valleys the lands
abandoned by them in Kuram were taken possession of by a new tribe, the
Turis, who gradually obtained the mastery over the Bangashes that
remained, and are now the dominant tribe there. The Bangashes still
possess the following tracts in the Kuram valley: Baghzai occupied by
Jamshedis, and Shalozam, Makhazai, Hajikhel, and Ziran occupied by
Shamilzais.
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