Mountains of Kashmir, Pakistan

Kashmir (Balti, Gojra, Poonch / Chibhali, Dogri: Kashmi; Ladakhi: ཀཤམིར; Uighur: كەشمىر; Shina: کشمیر) is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid 19th century, within geographically said the Kashmir valley between the Himalayas and the Pir Panjal Great. Today Kashmir indicates a large region that includes the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir (Kashmir valley, Jammu and Ladakh), Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad and China regions under the administration of Aksai Chin and the apparatus Trans-Karakoram.

In the first half of the first millennium, Kashmir, a major center of Hinduism and Buddhism later, still later, in the ninth century, Kashmir Shaivism arose. In 1349, Shah Mir was the first Muslim ruler of Kashmir and inaugurated the Salatin-i-Kashmir Swati dynasty. So Chak dynasty and their successors have exercised power and influence, until his defeat by the Mughals, by fraud in 1586 AD. In the coming centuries ruled Kashmir Muslim monarchs, including the Mughals, who ruled from 1586 until 1751, when the Durrani Afghan empire that ruled from 1747 until the 1820th This year, the Sikhs under Ranjit Singh, annexed Kashmir, but it was useless because they have never ruled the country altogether. In 1846, following the acquisition of the region of the British under the Treaty of Amritsar in Dogras under Gulab Singh, became the new power. Dogra rule in the balance (or guardian) of the British Crown, lasted until 1947, when the former princely state became a disputed territory, now administered by three countries: India, Pakistan and China.