Vamar

Vamar stands on the Panj just below the mouth of the Bartang, where the river bends west before turning north again. The meeting of the valleys made it an important place in Rushan, a small principality of the western Pamirs. Its rulers were linked to those of neighbouring Shughnan, and during the eighteenth century Rushan became a vassal of that state. The Bartang valley formed part of its domain.