Gligit Valley in Pakistan

 Gilgit ( گلگت)

Gilgit is the Capital city of Gilgit-Baltistan, a managerial domain of Pakistan. The city of Gilgit constitutes a tehsil inside Gilgit District. The city's antiquated name was Sargin, later to be known as Gilit, and it is still alluded to as Gilit or Sargin-Gilit by neighborhood individuals. In the Burushaski dialect, it is named Geelt and in Wakhi and Khowar it is called Gilt. Ghallata is viewed as its name in antiquated Sanskrit.

History

Gilgit was a vital city on the Silk Road, along which Buddhism was spread from South Asia to whatever remains of Asia. It is considered as a Buddhism hall from which numerous Chinese ministers came to Kashmir to learn and lecture Buddhism.

Brogpas follow their settlement from Gilgit into the fruitful towns of Ladakh through a rich corpus of psalms, melodies, and old stories that have been gone down through eras. The Dards and Shinas show up in a number of the old Pauranic arrangements of people groups who lived in the district, with the previous additionally specified in Ptolemy's records of the area. Two celebrated explorers, Faxian and Xuanzang, navigated Gilgit as per their records.

Early history

The previous rulers had the title of Ra, and there is motivation to assume that they were at one time Hindus, yet throughout the previous five centuries and a half they have been Moslems. The names of the Hindu Ras have been lost, except for the remainder of their number, Shri Buddutt. Convention relates that he was slaughtered by a Mohammedan traveler, who wedded his little girl and established another line, since called Trakhàn, from an observed Ra named Trakhan, who ruled about the initiation of the fourteenth century. The past rulers—of whom Shri Buddutt was the last—were called Shahreis.