Editing Gilgit (section)

=== Pre-Trakhàn ===
[[File:Donor with Sanskrit name venerating a stupa, Thalpan-Ziyarat, northern Pakistan, circa 7th century CE.jpg|thumb|upright|Devotee in [[Central Asia]]n dress with a Sanskrit name, venerating a Buddhist stupa, [[Chilas|Thalpan-Ziyarat]], circa 7th century CE.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Flood |first1=Finbarr Barry |title=A Turk in the Dukhang? Comparative Perspectives on Elite Dress in Medieval Ladakh and the Caucasus |date=2017 |publisher=Austrian Academy of Science Press |page=231 |url=https://www.academia.edu/35061254}}</ref>]]
{{cquote|The former rulers had the title of ''Ra'', and there is a reason to suppose that they were at one time [[Hindu]]s, but for the last five centuries and a half they have been [[Moslems]]. The names of the [[Hindu]] Ras have been lost, with the exception of the last of their number, [[Shri]] Ba'dut. Tradition relates that he was killed by a Mohammedan adventurer, who married his daughter and founded a new dynasty, since called [[Trakhàn Dynasty|Trakhàn]], from a celebrated Ra named Trakhan, who reigned about the commencement of the fourteenth century. The previous rulers—of whom Shri Ba'dut was the last—were called [[Shahreis]].<ref name=b1 />}}