Editing Quetta (section)

=== Early history ===
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File:Quetta 1880.JPG|Fort Mirri in 1880
File:Quetta4m.jpg|Quetta Cantonment, 1889
</gallery>Modern day Quetta was captured by [[Mahmud of Ghazni|Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi]] during his [[Ghaznavids|invasion of India]].<ref name="Burki">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rk-sBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA470 |title=Historical Dictionary of Pakistan |last=Burki |first=Shahid Javed |year=2015 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9781442241480 }}</ref> In 1543, Mughal emperor [[Humayun]] came to Quetta en route to [[Safavid Persia]], leaving his son and future Mughal emperor [[Akbar]] here. In 1709, the region was a part of Afghan [[Hotak dynasty]] and stayed a part until 1747 when [[Ahmed Shah Durrani]] conquered it and made it a part of [[Durrani Empire]]. The first European visited Quetta in 1828, describing it as ''mud-walled fort surrounded by three hundred mud houses''.<ref name="BHC Govt">{{cite web |url=https://bhc.gov.pk/district-judiciary/quetta/introduction/history |title=History of District |work=bhc.gov.pk |access-date=26 November 2017 |archive-date=1 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201034148/https://bhc.gov.pk/district-judiciary/quetta/introduction/history |url-status=live }}</ref>