The land of five waters gave the world its first cities, its saints and its songs. Broken by every empire that crossed it, it is still ours to remember, and to make whole again.

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Land & Ages

The LandRivers, doabs, Harappa and the first cities, seasons, numbersAgesEight ages of the Punjab, from the Soan to todayTimelineEvery dated event on one lineAtlasEvery place on one map, age by agePlacesCities, ancient sites, temples, mosques and gurdwaras, battlefieldsLanguage & scriptsPunjabi, its dialects, Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi

People & Faiths

PeopleSaints and teachers, poets and singers, rulers, rebels, the people of both PunjabsPeople of the landJats, Rajputs, Arains, Khatris, Dalit communities and more, across every faithFaithsHindu traditions, Islam and the Sufis, Sikhi, and the Punjab's other faiths

Kingdoms & Struggles

Kingdoms & WarsWho ruled the Punjab, the Kingdom of Lahore, and the battles fought over itWho ruled the PunjabEvery ruling power, 518 BCE to todayWars & BattlesFrom the Hydaspes to BasantarStruggles & Partitions1849, 1919, 1947, 1966, 1984, 2020

Culture & Museum

CulturePoets, qisse, songs, music, dance, festivals, foodMuseumSculpture, coins, manuscripts, painting, arms, buildings, and where to see themChronicles & ProphecyThe poetry of the old chroniclesAboutWhat this atlas is, its sources, and every word explainedHelp maintain this siteCorrections, pictures, sources and new entries
Punjab WikiPlacesCities & forts
Gilgit
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City or fort

Gilgit

ਗਿਲਗਿਤگلگت

The northernmost Sikh garrison, from 1842.

Gilgit, on the Gilgit river below the meeting of the Hindu Kush, the Karakoram and the Himalaya, was the northernmost outpost of the Sikh Empire.

A Sikh garrison was posted here from 1842, and the region passed to the Dogras after 1846.

It is now the capital of Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan.

Gilgit, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

In the world's museums

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Standing Maitreya, 8th century CE, Swat Valley or Gilgit regionStanding Maitreya, 8th century CE, Swat Valley or Gilgit regionThe Met, New York · photo Metropolitan Museum of Art (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Figure, likely Swat Valley or Gilgit regionFigure, likely Swat Valley or Gilgit regionThe Met, New York · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗

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