Gilgit

Gilgit was a royal seat on the upper Indus, at the meeting of the Gilgit and Hunza rivers. The Muslim Trakhan dynasty took its name from a ruler who reigned around 1300.

Under Torra Khan, who ruled from 1421 to 1475, his half-brother Shah Rais Khan fled to Badakhshan and seized Chitral, founding the Rais line. In the seventeenth century Queen Dadi Jawari built irrigation canals. The dynasty ended around 1810 with Raja Abbas's death, leaving the rajas of Yasin, Punial and Nagar to fight over Gilgit.