Gurez, the Glossary
Gurez, or Gurais (Guráai in the local Shina language), is a valley located in the high Himalayas, about from Bandipore and from Srinagar, to the north of the Kashmir valley.[1]
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- Bandipora district
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Astore District
Astore District (ضلع استور) is a district of Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan in the disputed Kashmir region.
Azad Kashmir
Azad Jammu and Kashmir abbreviated as AJK and colloquially referred to as simply Azad Kashmir, is a region administered by Pakistan as a nominally self-governing entitySee.
Bandipore
Bandipore or Bandipora is the headquarters of district of Bandipore in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Gurez and Bandipore are Bandipora district.
Bandipore district
Bandipore district (also spelt as Bandipora or Bandipur) is an administrative district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. Gurez and Bandipore district are Bandipora district.
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Brahmi script
Brahmi (ISO: Brāhmī) is a writing system of ancient India.
Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Burzil Pass
The Burzil Pass (el.) (Urdu: درہ برزیل) is a mountain pass in northern Pakistan, and is part of the historic caravan route between the cities of Srinagar and Gilgit.
Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Classical Tibetan
Classical Tibetan refers to the language of any text written in Tibetic after the Old Tibetan period.
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Dardic languages
The Dardic languages (also Dardu or Pisaca), or Hindu-Kush Indo-Aryan languages, are a group of several Indo-Aryan languages spoken in northern Pakistan, northwestern India and parts of northeastern Afghanistan.
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Dardistan
Dardistan refers to a region where Dardic languages are spoken.
Dawar, Jammu and Kashmir
Dawar is a village in Gurez Tehsil in Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Dimple Kapadia
Dimple Kapadia (born 8 June 1957) is an Indian actress predominantly appearing in Hindi films.
Dogri language
Dogri (Devanagari: label; Name Dogra Akkhar: 𑠖𑠵𑠌𑠤𑠮|label.
Dras
Dras (also spelt Drass, ISO transliteration: Drās), also known locally in Shina as Himababs, Hembabs, or Humas, is a town and hill station, near Kargil in the Kargil district of the union territory of Ladakh in India.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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Female
An organism's sex is female (symbol: ♀) if it produces the ovum (egg cell), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete (sperm cell) during sexual reproduction.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
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Gilgit
Gilgit (Shina:; گلگت) is a city in Pakistani-administered Gilgit–Baltistan in the disputed Kashmir region.
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Gulmarg
Gulmarg, known as Gulmarag in Kashmiri, is a town, hill station, tourist destination, skiing destination, and a notified area committee in the Baramulla district in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Gurez
Gurez, or Gurais (Guráai in the local Shina language), is a valley located in the high Himalayas, about from Bandipore and from Srinagar, to the north of the Kashmir valley. Gurez and Gurez are Bandipora district, Kashmir and valleys of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Gurez Assembly constituency
Gurez Assembly constituency is one of the 87 constituencies in the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir a north state of India.
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Himalayan brown bear
The Himalayan brown bear (Ursus arctos isabellinus), also known as the Himalayan red bear or isabelline bear, is a subspecies of the brown bear occurring in the western Himalayas.
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Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya.
Hindi
Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.
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Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
Hindus
Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.
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Human sex ratio
The human sex ratio is the ratio of males to females in a population in the context of anthropology and demography.
Hydroelectricity
Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power).
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
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Indian Standard Time
Indian Standard Time (IST), sometimes also called India Standard Time, is the time zone observed throughout the Republic of India, with a time offset of UTC+05:30.
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Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
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Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)
Jammu and Kashmir is a region administered by India as a union territory and consists of the southern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and between India and China since 1959.
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Kashgar
Kashgar (قەشقەر) or Kashi (c) is a city in the Tarim Basin region of southern Xinjiang, China.
Kashmir Valley
The Kashmir Valley, also known as the Vale of Kashmir, is an intermontane valley in northern Jammu and Kashmir, a region in Indian-administered Kashmir. Gurez and Kashmir Valley are valleys of Jammu and Kashmir.
Kashmiri language
Kashmiri or Koshur (Kashmiri) is a Dardic Indo-Aryan language spoken by around 7 million Kashmiris of the Kashmir region, primarily in the Kashmir Valley of the Indian-administrated union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, over half the population of that territory. Gurez and Kashmiri language are Kashmir.
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Kashmiris
Kashmiris are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group speaking the Kashmiri language and originating from the Kashmir Valley, which is today located in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir.
Kharosthi
The Kharoṣṭhī script, also known as the Gāndhārī script, was an ancient Indic script used by various peoples from the north-western outskirts of the Indian subcontinent (present-day Pakistan) to Central Asia via Afghanistan.
Line of Control
The Line of Control (LoC) is a military control line between the Indian and Pakistanicontrolled parts of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir—a line which does not constitute a legally recognized international boundary, but serves as the de facto border.
List of districts of Jammu and Kashmir
The Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir consists of two divisions: Jammu Division and Kashmir Division, and is further divided into 20 districts.
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List of sovereign states
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.
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Literacy in India
Literacy in India is a key for social-economic progress.
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Male
Male (symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilisation.
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Markoot
Markoot is a village in Gurez tehsil in Bandipora district of the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)
A member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district (constituency) to the legislature of State government in the Indian system of government.
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Minimarg
Minimarg (Menee Marg in Kashmiri; منٕ مرگ) is a village in the Astore District of Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan.
Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani
Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani (میر سید علی همدانی; CE) was a Sufi Muslim saint of the Kubrawiya order, who played an important role in spread of Islam in Kashmir.
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Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
Neelum District
Neelum (spelt also Neelam; نیلم) is a district of Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region.
Neelum River
The Neelum River, or Kishanganga River, is a river in the Kashmir region of Pakistan and India.
NHPC
NHPC Limited (erstwhile National Hydroelectric Power Corporation) is an Indian public sector hydropower company that was incorporated in 1975 to plan, promote and organise an integrated and efficient development of hydroelectric power.
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Operation Eraze
Operation Eraze is the codename of the assault and capture of Gurais in northern Kashmir by the Indian Army during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947.
Pahalgam
Pahalgam, known as Pahalgom (in Kashmiri) is a town and a notified area committee, near Anantnag city in the Anantnag district of the Indian-administered union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Persian language
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.
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Postal Index Number
A Postal Index Number (PIN; sometimes redundantly a PIN code) refers to a six-digit code in the Indian postal code system used by India Post.
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Rainbow trout
The rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is a species of trout native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in North America and Asia.
Razdan Pass
Razdan Pass, (sometimes Rajdhan Pass) is a high mountain pass in the Himalayas of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Salmo trutta fario
Salmo trutta fario, sometimes called the river trout, is a river-dwelling freshwater predatory fish from the genus Salmo of the family Salmonidae.
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Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes are officially designated groups of people and among the most disadvantaged socio-economic groups in India.
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Sharada Peeth
Sharada Peeth is a ruined Hindu temple and ancient centre of learning located in the Neelum Valley of Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region.
Shina language
Shina (ݜݨیاٗ,شِْنْیٛا) is a Dardic language of Indo-Aryan language family spoken by the Shina people.
Shina people
The Shina (Shina: ݜݨیاٗ) or Gilgitis are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group primarily residing in Gilgit–Baltistan and Indus Kohistan in Pakistan, as well as in the Dras Valley and Kishenganga Valley (Gurez) in the northern region of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh in India.
Sikhism
Sikhism, also known as Sikhi (ਸਿੱਖੀ,, from translit), is a monotheistic religion and philosophy, that originated in the Punjab region of India around the end of the 15th century CE.
Silk Road
The Silk Road was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century.
Snow leopard
The snow leopard (Panthera uncia), occasionally called ounce, is a species of large cat in the genus Panthera of the family Felidae.
Sopore railway station
Sopur (or Sopore) Railway Station is situated in the outskirts of Sopore town.
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Srinagar
Srinagar (English) is a city in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region.
Srinagar Airport
Sheikh Ul Alam International Airport or Srinagar Airport, also known as Budgam Airbase is an international airport serving Srinagar, the summer capital of the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
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State legislative assemblies of India
The State Legislative Assembly, or Vidhan Sabha, also called Vidhana Sabha, or Saasana Sabha, is a legislative body in each of the states and certain union territories of India.
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States and union territories of India
India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, for a total of 36 entities.
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Sub-divisional magistrate
A sub-divisional magistrate, also known as sub collector, revenue divisional officer, or assistant commissioner, is the administrative head of a sub-division in an Indian district, exercising executive, revenue, and magisterial duties.
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The Valley of Kashmir
The Valley of Kashmir (1895) is a book on Kashmir by the English writer Sir Walter Roper Lawrence.
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Trout
Trout (trout) is a generic common name for numerous species of carnivorous freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the genera Oncorhynchus, Salmo and Salvelinus, all of which are members of the subfamily Salmoninae in the family Salmonidae.
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Tulail Valley
The Tulail Valley is a Himalayan sub-valley of Gurez in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir in India. The Valley lies northeast of Bandipora and from Srinagar the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir. Tulail Valley lies immediate east of the Gurez Valley. Gurez and Tulail Valley are valleys of Jammu and Kashmir.
Urdu
Urdu (اُردُو) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia.
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Wular Lake
Wular Lake, also known as Wolar in Kashmiri, is one of the largest fresh water lakes in South Asia. Gurez and Wular Lake are Bandipora district.
2011 census of India
The 2011 census of India or the 15th Indian census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration.
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2017 Gurez sector avalanche
The Gurez Avalanche Accident was a series of four avalanches that claimed the lives of 24 persons, including 20 soldiers and four civilians in Jammu and Kashmir on the evening of 25 January 2017.
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See also
Bandipora district
- Bandipora Assembly constituency
- Bandipore
- Bandipore district
- Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency
- Gurez
- Mangnipora
- Patushay
- Qazipora
- Sangrama Assembly constituency
- Sonawari Assembly constituency
- Watapora
- Wular Lake
Valleys of Jammu and Kashmir
- Bangus Valley
- Breng Valley
- Chenab Valley
- Chinta Valley
- Gandhari Valley
- Gurez
- Hajan Valley
- Jai Valley
- Kashmir Valley
- Khilanmarg
- Lidder Valley
- Lolab Valley
- Sind Valley
- Tulail Valley
- Warwan Valley
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurez
Also known as Gurais, Guraiz, Gures (Kashmir), Gurez Valley.
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