Lyallpur

[lahy-uhl-poor]

noun

1. a city in NE Pakistan.

Lyallpur

/ ˌlaɪəlˈpʊə /

noun

1. the former name (until 1979) of Faisalabad

Example Sentences

From her scrupulously recorded notes, we learn this man was a farmer from Lyallpur district, now heading to India with his sick wife on his shoulders.

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The Lyallpur district occupies most of the Sándal Bár, which a quarter of a century ago was a desert producing scrub jungle and, if rains were favourable, excellent grass.

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Similar hybrid names have been created by the English in India, mostly on the North-west Frontier, where alone they have planted new inhabited sites—Lyallpur, Abbotabad, Edwardesabad, Robertsganj, and the like.

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Several towns of considerable size have already grown up; the largest, called Lyallpur, having about 10,000 inhabitants.

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