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Sacred Rock of Hunza, the Glossary

The Sacred Rocks of Hunza or Haldeikish constitute one of the earliest sites of Petroglyphs along the ancient Silk Route.^[1]

29 relations: Attabad Lake, Bactrian language, Brahmi script, Buddhism, Chandragupta II, China, Chinese language, Ganish, Gilgit-Baltistan, Government of Pakistan, Gupta Empire, Hunza (princely state), Hunza District, Hunza River, Hunza Valley, Huvishka, Ibex, Kanishka, Karakoram Highway, Karimabad, Gilgit-Baltistan, Kharosthi, Kushan Empire, List of forts in Pakistan, List of museums in Pakistan, Pakistan, Petroglyph, Sogdian language, Tibetan script, UNESCO.
Archaeological sites in Gilgit-Baltistan
Cultural heritage sites in Gilgit-Baltistan
History of Gilgit-Baltistan
Tourist attractions in Gilgit-Baltistan

Attabad Lake

Attabad Lake Gojal (عطا آباد جھیل) is a lake located in the Gojal region of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.

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Bactrian language

Bactrian (ariao, cat.

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Brahmi script

Brahmi (ISO: Brāhmī) is a writing system of ancient India.

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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.

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Chandragupta II

Chandragupta II (r.c. 375-415), also known by his title Vikramaditya, as well as Chandragupta Vikramaditya, was the third ruler of the Gupta Empire in India.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.

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Ganish

Ganish (also Ganesh) is a village in the Hunza District within the Gilgit Baltistan region of Pakistan.

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Gilgit-Baltistan

Gilgit-Baltistan, formerly known as the Northern Areas, is a region administered by Pakistan as an administrative territory and consists of the northern 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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Government of Pakistan

The Government of Pakistan (حکومتِ پاکستان, abbreviated as GoP), constitutionally known as the Federal Government, commonly known as the Centre, is the national authority of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of four provinces and one federal territory.

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Gupta Empire

The Gupta Empire was an ancient Indian empire on the Indian subcontinent which existed from the mid 3rd century CE to mid 6th century CE.

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Hunza (princely state)

Hunza (ہنزہ), also known as Kanjut, was a princely state in the Gilgit Baltistan region of Pakistan.

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Hunza District

Hunza District (ضلع ہنزہ, ہُنزݳ ضِلع) is a district of Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan in the disputed Kashmir region.

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Hunza River

Hunza River (دریائے ہنزہ) is the principal river within the Hunza region in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan.

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Hunza Valley

The Hunza Valley (ہُنزݳ دِش|translit.

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Huvishka

Huvishka (Kushan: Οοηϸκι, Ooēški, Brahmi: 𑀳𑀼𑀯𑀺𑀱𑁆𑀓;,; Kharosthi: 𐨱𐨂𐨬𐨅𐨮𐨿𐨐) was the emperor of the Kushan Empire from the death of Kanishka (assumed on the best evidence available to be in 150 CE) until the succession of Vasudeva I about thirty years later.

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Ibex

An ibex (ibex, ibexes or ibices) is any of several species of wild goat (genus ''Capra''), distinguished by the male's large recurved horns, which are transversely ridged in front.

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Kanishka

Kanishka I, also known as Kanishka the Great, was an emperor of the Kushan dynasty, under whose reign (–150 CE) the empire reached its zenith.

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Karakoram Highway

The Karakoram Highway (شاہراہ قراقرم), also known as the KKH, National Highway 35 (قومی شاہراہ ۳۵), N-35, and the ChinaPakistan Friendship Highway, is a national highway which extends from Hasan Abdal in the Punjab province of Pakistan to the Khunjerab Pass in Gilgit-Baltistan, where it crosses into China and becomes China National Highway 314.

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Karimabad, Gilgit-Baltistan

Karimabad, formerly known as Baltit, is the capital of the Hunza District in Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan in the disputed Kashmir region.

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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.

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Kushan Empire

The Kushan Empire (– AD) was a syncretic empire formed by the Yuezhi in the Bactrian territories in the early 1st century.

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List of forts in Pakistan

The following is a partial list of forts and castles in Pakistan.

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List of museums in Pakistan

This is a list of museums, galleries, and related building structures in Pakistan.

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Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.

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Petroglyph

A petroglyph is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art.

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Sogdian language

The Sogdian language was an Eastern Iranian language spoken mainly in the Central Asian region of Sogdia (capital: Samarkand; other chief cities: Panjakent, Fergana, Khujand, and Bukhara), located in modern-day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan; it was also spoken by some Sogdian immigrant communities in ancient China.

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Tibetan script

The Tibetan script is a segmental writing system, or abugida, derived from of Brahmic scripts and Gupta script, and used to write certain Tibetic languages, including Tibetan, Dzongkha, Sikkimese, Ladakhi, Jirel and Balti.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Rock_of_Hunza

Also known as Haldeikish.