Kohtali

Kohtali, later known as Kotli, stands on the Poonch River among the hills north of the Punjab plains. Its old name means “under the mountain.” In the twelfth century a branch of the Mangral Rajput family, who traced their descent to Raja Mangar Pal, settled here. Their hill state endured into the nineteenth century, when Ranjit Singh brought it under Sikh rule.