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| | #REDIRECT [[Rajadom_of_Kashmir]] |
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| | colspan="2" style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; vertical-align: top; text-align: center; font-size: 95%;" | [[]]<br />map of Kashmir
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top;" | '''Capitals'''
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top;" | Parvasenpur
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| | '''Head of State'''
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| | '''Head of Government'''
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top;" | '''Demonym'''
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top;" | Kashmiri
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | '''Religions'''
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| | style="padding: 0 1em 0 0; text-align:left; vertical-align: top;" | Buddhism<br>Islam
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | '''Languages'''
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| | style="padding: 0 1em 0 0; text-align:left; vertical-align: top;" | Nepali
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | '''Founding'''
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | '''Area'''
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | 15,948 km²<br> mi²
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | 3,134,000
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | '''Currency'''
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top;" |1 Himalayan Rupee (Rs) = 20 sukaa (s) = 240 paisa (p)
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | '''Time zone'''
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top;" | UTC +6:00
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | '''Telephone Code'''
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | '''Registration'''
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| | [[wikipedia:call sign#Aviation|Aviation]]
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| | style="padding: 0 1em 0 0; text-align:left; vertical-align: top;" | KSH
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| | [[wikipedia:call sign#Amateur_radio|Amateur radio]]
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | '''Organizations'''
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top;" | Himalayan Confederacy
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | '''Sports'''
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| | style="padding: 0 1em 0 0; text-align:left; vertical-align: top;" | ???
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| ==History==
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| Text in '''bold''' print indicates PoD.
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| ===Pre-Islam===
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| Kashmir was one of the major centers of Sanskrit scholarship. According to the [[Wikipedia:Mahabharata|Mahabharata]], the [[Wikipedia:Kambojas|Kambojas]] ruled Kashmir during the [[Wikipedia:Indian epic poetry|epic]] period with a republican system of government from the capital city of Rajapura. Later, the [[Wikipedia:Panchala|Panchala]]s established their sway and their king Pravarasena II founded the city of [[Wikipedia:Srinagar|Parvasenpur]]. [[Wikipedia:Asoka|Asoka]], the great ruler of the [[Wikipedia:Maurya|Mauryan]] Empire introduced Buddhism to the region. The new religion co-existed peacefully with the dominant Hindu culture.
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| Kashmir became an important seat of Buddhist learning, dominated by the [[Wikipedia:Sarvastivada|Sarvastivadan]] school. Monks from eastern and central Asia visited the kingdom. In the late fourth century A.D., the famous [[Wikipedia:Kucha|Kucha]]nese monk [[Wikipedia:Kumarajiva|Kumarajiva]], born to an Indian noble family, studied Dirghagama and Madhyagama in Kashmir under the great scholar Bandhudatta. He later became a prolific translator who helped introduce Buddhism to China. [[Wikipedia:Vimalaksa|Vimalaksa]], a Sarvastivadan Buddhist monk, travelled from Kashmir to Kucha and there instructed Kumarajiva in the ''[[Wikipedia:Buddhist texts#Vinaya|Vinayapitaka]]''.
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| ===Muslim rule===
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| '''The Abbasid Caliphate, during their stay in Persia, expanded into Afghanopakistan and northern India, but the new religion had little impact on the mass of the people and remained the religion of the ruling elite only.'''
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| In 1339, Shams-ud-Din Shah Mir became the ruler of Kashmir and the founder of the Shah Miri dynasty. He came from [[Wikipedia:Swat (princely state)|Swat]], a tribal territory on the borders of Afghanistan. Until his death in 1342, he played a notable role in the political history of the valley.
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| Shah Mir was succeeded by his eldest son Jamshid, but he was deposed by his brother Ali Sher '''five months later'''. Ali Sher ascended the throne assuming the royal name Alauddin.
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| The Muslim rulers lived in relative harmony with their Hindu and Buddhist subjects, due partly to the similarity of the Sufi way of life of the rulers to [[Wikipedia:Rishi|Rishi]] tradition of the Kashmiri Hinduss. This led to a syncretic culture where Hindus and Muslims revered the same local saints and prayed at the same shrines.
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| Several Kashmiri rulers, such as Sultan Zain-ul-Abidin, were tolerant of the religions of their subjects. However, several were intolerant, of whom Sultan [[Wikipedia:Sikandar Butshikan|Sikandar Butshikan]] (1389-1413) and his (former Brahmin) minister Saif ud-Din were the worst. Historians have recorded many of the atrocities carried out in his persecution of the Hindus and Buddhists. He even went so far as to proscribe the residence of anyone other than a Muslim in Kashmir.
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| ===Sikh rule===
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| In 1780, after the death of [[Wikipedia:Ranjit Deo|Ranjit Deo]], the Raja of Jammu, the Kingdom of Jammu (to the south of the Kashmir Valley) was captured by the Sikhs under [[Wikipedia:Ranjit Singh|Ranjit Singh]] of Lahore and became a tributary to the Sikh R.S. until 1846. By the early 19th century, the Kashmir Valley had passed from Muslim rule to the armies of the Sikh R.S. Ranjit Deo's grandnephew, [[Wikipedia:Gulab Singh|Gulab Singh]], subsequently sought service at the court of Ranjit Singh, distinguished himself in later campaigns, especially the annexation of the Kashmir Valley by the Sikh army in 1819, and, for his services, was created Raja of Jammu in 1820. With the help of his officer, Zorawar Singh, Gulab Singh soon captured Ladakh and Baltistan.
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| ==Toponymy==
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| ==Government==
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| ====Provinces (''anchal'')====
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| ! style="background: #efefef; border-bottom: 2px solid gray;" | Area
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| ! style="background: #efefef; border-bottom: 2px solid gray;" | Population
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| ! style="background: #efefef; border-bottom: 2px solid gray;" | Prefectures
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| | Mustang
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| | 3,573 km²
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| | 29,545 (2001)
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| | Dolpa
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| | Dunai
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| | 7,889 km²
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| | Manang
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| | Chame
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| | 2,246 km²
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| | 9,587 (2001)
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| *Thus, the total area of the rajadom is 13,708 km², about the size of *here's* Montenegro.
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| *The 15 Mustang prefectures are Chhonkup, Lomanthan, Chhoser, Chanang, Sukkang, Dhami, Chhusang, Kagbeni, Jhong, Muktinath, Marpha, Tukuche, Kowang, Junjo, and Lete.
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| *The 14 Manang prefectures are Fu, Nar, Thoche, Tanki Manang, Khangsar, Bhraka, Nyawal, Gyasu, Manang, Pisang, Chame, Tachi Bogarcchap, Thoche, Dharapani.
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| *The 19 Dolpa prefectures are Bhijar, Saddang, Tinje, Phoksundo, Dho,Chhenka, Mukot, Sakartana, Dunai, Lawan, Raha, Tripunakot, Likhu, Pahada, Lohai, Kalika, Narku, Rimi, Sarmi.
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| ==Geography==
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| ===Borders===
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| Lo is bordered by on the:
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| North: Tibet<br>
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| West: Nepal ([[Wikipedia:Mugu District|Mugu]], [[Wikipedia:Jumla District|Jumla]])<br>
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| Southwest: Nepal ([[Wikipedia:Jajarkot District|Jajarkot]])<br>
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| South: Nepal ([[Wikipedia:Rukum District|Rukum]], [[Wikipedia:Myagdi District|Myagdi]], [[Wikipedia:Kaski District|Kaski]])<br>
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| Southeast: Nepal ([[Wikipedia:Lamjung District|Lamjung]])<br>
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| East: Nepal ([[Wikipedia:Gorkha District|Gorkha]])
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| '''The Rajahdom of Lo is contiguous with *here's* Nepali districts of Mustang, Dolpo, and Manang.'''
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| ==Climate==
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| ==Economy==
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| ==Demographics==
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| ==Culture==
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| ===National symbols===
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| *National mammal 1: [[Wikipedia:Cervus elaphus hodgsoni|Kashmiri stag]] (''Cervus elaphus hodgsoni'')
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| *National mammal 2: [[Wikipedia:|Wikipedia:]] ()
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| *National bird: [[Wikipedia:Garrulus lanceolatus|Lanceolated jay]] (''Garrulus lanceolatus'']
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| *National flower: [[Wikipedia:Rhododendron ponticum|Common rhododendron]] (''Rhododendron ponticum'')
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| *National tree: [[Wikipedia:Betula utilis|birch]] (''Betulus utilis'')
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| **The hoist half of the flag is white, the color of the snows on the sacred Himalayas, which symbolizes the secular tradition of the Rajadom. The [[Wikipedia:Chhatraratna|auspicious Parasol]] in the blue color of peace symbolizes His Majesty the King, whose noble actions enhance the Rajadom. Hence, it symbolizes that His Majesty is protector of the people of the Rajadom and the upholder of the secular foundations of the Rajadom.
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| **The fly half of the flag is maroon, the color of the robes of the monks and symbolizes the spiritual tradition. The golden [[Wikipedia:Dharmacakra|dharma wheel]], with the [[Wikipedia:Gankyil|gankyil]] in the center, symbolizes the flourishing of the Buddhist teachings in the Rajadom.
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| **The pale wavy green symbolizes the Gandaki River that flows through the Rajadom.
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| **The [[Wikipedia:Wind Horse|lung ta]] (wind horse) flies from fly to hoist symbolizing that the Buddhist tradition infuses the government of the Rajadom.
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| *National emblem:
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| **Per pale white and maroon, a pale wavy vert, on the dexter an auspicious parasol azure, on the sinister the Wheel of Dharma or; on a chief vert a wind horse courant to the dexter.
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| **For supporters, on the dexter a sand fox and on the sinister a musk deer, all proper.
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| **For a crest, a [[Wikipedia:vajra|vajra]] or rising out of a lotus white.
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| *National aviation roundel: a circle divided in half, white and red, a green stripe down the center.
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| *National instrument: [[Wikipedia:|Wikipedia:]]
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| ===Lotian holidays===
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| (Dates in ''italics'' are postponed)
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| | 14 February
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| | [[Wikipedia:Losar|Losar]]
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| | New Year
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| | 21 February
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| | ''The King's Birthday''
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| | [[Wikipedia:Chotrul Duchen|Chotrul Duchen]]
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| | [[Wikipedia:Vesak|Suga Dawa Duchen]]
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| | The Buddha's Birth, Enlightenment, and [[Wikipedia:Parinirvana|Parinirvana]] (2010 only)
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| | 21 June
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| | Chokhor Duchen
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| | The Buddha's First Sermon (2010 only)
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| |[[Wikipedia: Buddhist Holidays|Ulambana]]
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| | Thri-bab
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| | [[Wikipedia:Dasain|Dashain]]
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| | Victory of the Goddess [[Wikipedia:Durga|Durga]] (2010 only)
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| | 29 October
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| | [[Wikipedia:Lhabab Duchen|Lhabab Duchen]]
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| | The Buddha's Descent to Earth (2010 only))
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| | 6 November
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| | The King's Coronation
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