Trakhan

The Trakhan dynasty ruled Gilgit in the upper Indus for about five centuries until around 1810. Local tradition makes its founders heirs of the Shahreis: the Persian adventurer Azur Jamshid is said to have overthrown Shri Badat, married his daughter Nur Bakht Khatun, and fathered Garg, the first ruler to take the title raja.

The dynasty was named after Raja Trakhan, who reigned around the turn of the fourteenth century, and the line was Muslim for most of its history. Under Raja Torra Khan, who ruled from 1421 to 1475, the Trakhan name became fixed; his stepbrother Shah Rais Khan seized Chitral, founding the rival Raisiya line.

The seventeenth-century queen Dadi Jawari was remembered for her irrigation canals. The last raja, Abbas, died around 1810, after which Gilgit was fought over by the rulers of Yasin, Punial and Nagar.