History of Gulmit

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History of Gulmit

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In the name of Allah, I hereby share the tale of Gulmit. In the old days there was a lot of fighting between Hunza and Nagar. During that time, Gulmit had a very small population of only about 70-80 families. My forefather Rozdor was the first to come to this village. Rozdor […] saw the glacier water near Kamarish and turned the water towards Gulmit. After a month, when he came back he found that the water had reached a place called Burshun where he started to live. Subsequently, he brought his uncle from the Barcha family in central Hunza. The history of Gulmit is about 1,100 years old and you certainly know the history of Shri Badat The body guard of Shri Badat was Tilik Muhammad, he was our forefather. When Shri Badat was killed, our family shifted from Gilgit to Hunza. Then his son came here and settled in Gulmit [as stated above]. The mountain over there is called Ghawush, here is our pasture. When the population was very low, the people of Nagar used to come here and attack people and steal things, therefore the villagers gathered and built a fort. It's now known as Andhra Poyga. We've built steps for it and now we called it Poyga, but there was no water on the top of the fort [to build the walls]. They used to dig [mud] bricks from the soil and from every house seven bricks had to be carried up the hill daily. This is a historical event. As my father, his father, and his father up to fifth generation were more than 90 years old, we guess that Andhra Poyga must be 250 to 300 years old. Andhra means that there are ten rivers that can be seen from here at one time. Smoke signals were used for communication, people used to understand fire and smoke signs. Depending on how they were used the signs could indicate happiness or problems. At that [early] time there was no ruler in Andhra Poyga, it was only a place where people lived together for self-defense.

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