Dhamtour
Dhamtour is a village in the Abbottabad District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. It lies east of Abbottabad and approximately north of Islamabad at an average elevation of and serves as the main settlement of the Dahamtore Union Council.
History
In 1848 during the Second Sikh War, James Abbott marched his men through Dhamtour en route to the Dor Valley in a failed attempt to prevent Chatar Singh from heading northwards from Haripur to Mansehra.In the 1890s Dhamtour, referred to as Dhumtour, was mentioned by British geologist Charles Stewart Middlemiss when he was doing a survey of the area as part of his geological fieldwork in Hazara for the colonial era Geological Survey of India, he described it as one of a "few large villages" that lay along the course of the Dore river.
Dhamtour itself was described by Middlemiss as "a fairly large village, situated on a flat triangle of gravel and clay terraces, and with a steep descent of 200-300 feet down to the Dore river; these recent accumulations being part of the same continuous valley deposits, which, following the bed of the Dore, ascend gradually by the little stream of the Jub to join up with those of the Abbottabad plain."