Urtsun

The Urtsun take their name from the Urtsun valley in southern Chitral, home to Kalash (Kalasha) communities that once held the valleys south of Chitral town. Local Kalash chiefs governed the valley and kept its old animist religion while Muslim rule took hold in Chitral from the 1300s, with the Rais and later the Katur dynasties building the state of Chitral around them.