The Gilgit Agency (Urdu: گلگت ایجنسی) was an agency within the British Indian Empire. It encompassed the subsidiary states of the princely state of Jammu...
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Gilgit (/ˈɡɪlɡɪt/; Shina: گلیٗت; Urdu: گلگت IPA: [ˈɡɪlɡɪt]) is a city in Pakistani-administered Gilgit–Baltistan in the disputed Kashmir region. It is...
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name "Northern Areas". It was formed by the amalgamation of the former Gilgit Agency, the Baltistan district, and several small former princely states, the...
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on behalf of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, to police the Gilgit Agency, which formed the northern frontier of British India. The force was...
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In November 1947, the paramilitary force of Gilgit Scouts stationed at Gilgit rebelled against the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, soon after it...
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the Gilgit Agency were tributary to the Maharaja of Jammu & Kashmir. States of the Punjab States Agency (Punjab). States of the Rajputana Agency. Bajana...
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William Brown (British Army officer) (category History of Gilgit-Baltistan)
actions during the Partition of India, when he assisted the locals of the Gilgit Agency and led a coup d'état, codenamed Operation Datta Khel, against Hari...
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Gilgit-Baltistan is an administrative territory of Pakistan that borders the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the west, Azad Kashmir to the southwest...
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Gilgit, thus serving as the capital of the territory. In 1970, the Gilgit Agency, the Baltistan district of erstwhile Ladakh wazarat, and the hill states...
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Kalat Las Bela Kharan Makran Phulra Amb Swat Dir Chitral Hunza Nagar Gilgit Agency (after getting independence) The origins of most of the former administrative...
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Territory; and the administrative territories of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit–Baltistan. As part of the Kashmir conflict with neighbouring India, Pakistan...
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Baltit Fort (category History of Gilgit Agency)
بلتت) is a fort in the Hunza valley, near the town of Karimabad, in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan. Founded in the 8th century CE, it...
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part of Gilgit-Baltistan.) The Gilgit district and the frontier ilaqas were administered by the British administration as the Gilgit Agency, which were...
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Hunza Valley (category History of Gilgit Agency)
وادی ہنزہ) is a mountainous valley located in the northern region of the Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. The valley stretches along the Hunza River and shares...
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Hunza (princely state) (category History of Gilgit Agency)
constitutes the northernmost part of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. The princely state bordered the Gilgit Agency to the south, the former princely state...
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Yasin Valley (redirect from Yasin Valley, Gilgit–Baltistan)
warriors and fought against the Sikhs and the Dogras of Kashmir in Gilgit Agency. But more often, they fought with each other, intrigued and murdered...
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Baltistan (category Regions of Gilgit-Baltistan)
སྦལ་ཏི་ཡུལ་།), is a mountainous region in the Pakistani-administered territory of Gilgit-Baltistan and constitutes a northern portion of the larger Kashmir region...
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Hunza–Nagar Campaign (category History of Gilgit Agency)
Raj against the princely states of Hunza and Nagar in the Gilgit Agency (now part of the Gilgit-Baltistan region in Pakistan). It is also known in Pakistan...
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Mirza Hassan Khan (category History of Gilgit Agency)
Gilgit, was a captain of the 6th Infantry of the Jammu and Kashmir State Forces. Placed at Bunji in the Gilgit wazarat (now Astore district, Gilgit-Baltistan)...
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Federally Administered Tribal Areas (redirect from Agencies of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas)
increase in population of any province, after that of Balochistan, Sindh and Gilgit-Baltistan. According to the 2017 census of Pakistan, 98.4% of the population...
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northern areas including the Gilgit district, the Gilgit Agency and the Baltistan tehsil of the Ladakh district (later renamed Gilgit-Baltistan). India and Pakistan...
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bordered by five princely states to the north, the minor states of the Gilgit Agency to the northeast, the province of Punjab to the east and the province...
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family. His grandfather, a nobleman, served as the governor of the Gilgit Agency. His mother died during childbirth and he lost his father when he was...
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Nagar (princely state) (category Gilgit-Baltistan articles missing geocoordinate data)
Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan. Before August 1947, it maintained a subsidiary alliance with British India. It shared its borders with the Gilgit Agency states...
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Hindu family; his great-grandfather was a nobleman who governed the Gilgit Agency as its Wazir-e-Wazarat. He is son of veteran actor Jeevan. He attended...
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Report and Gazetteer of the Gilgit Agency, 2nd ed., page 44, (1927). Military Report and Gazetteer of the Gilgit Agency, 2nd ed., page 45, (1927). C...
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the invaders by 7 November, securing the Kashmir Valley. In the Gilgit Agency, the Gilgit Scouts, led by Major William Brown, rebelled on 1 November, detaining...
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Skardu (category History of Gilgit-Baltistan)
སྦལ་ཏི།, pronounced [skərduː]) is a city located in Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan in the disputed Kashmir region. Skardu serves as the capital of...
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Balawaristan (category History of Gilgit Agency)
heights'), is a term used for the historical region forming present-day Gilgit-Baltistan .The modern term was coined by the political party Balawaristan...
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bordered the following areas. Kohistan Tribal Area (to the northwest) Gilgit Agency (to the North and North East) Hazara Division (to the south) Amb (to...
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