Editing Sialkot (section)

==== Late antiquity ====
The city was visited by the Chinese traveller [[Xuanzang]] in 633,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eSYKO5zLgZkC&q=sialkot+xuanzang&pg=PT76|title=The Silk Road Journey With Xuanzang|last=Wriggins|first=Sally|date=6 August 2008|publisher=Basic Books|isbn=9780786725441}}</ref> who recorded the city's name the ''She-kie-lo.''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6p2XCgAAQBAJ&q=sialkot+xuanzang&pg=PA113|title=The World of the Skandapurāṇa|last=Bakker|first=Hans|date=16 July 2014|publisher=BRILL|isbn=9789004277144}}</ref> Xuanzang reported that the city had been rebuilt approximately 15 ''[[Li (unit)|li]],'' or 2.5 miles, away from the city ruined by Alexander the Great.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p4AXM4MbyL0C&q=sangala+hill+alexander&pg=PA192|title=Four Reports Made During the Years 1862-63-64-65 by Alexander Cunningha M: 2|date=1871|publisher=Government central Press}}</ref> During this time, Sialkot served as the political nucleus of the North [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]] region.<ref name=":5">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EIAyDwAAQBAJ&q=Sialkot&pg=PT170|title=The Geopolitical Orbits of Ancient India: The Geographical Frames of the Ancient Indian Dynasties|last=Chakrabarty|first=Dilip K.|date=18 October 2010|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199088324}}</ref> The city was then invaded in 643 by princes from [[Jammu]], who held the city until the Muslim invasions during the medieval era.<ref name=":6">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7JQbAQAAIAAJ&q=mughal+sialkot&pg=PA442|title=The Imperial Gazetteer of India|last=Hunter|first=Sir William Wilson|date=1887|publisher=Trübner & Company|isbn=978-81-7019-117-9 }}</ref>