خپلو

Khaplu خپلو
شھر
عرفيت: Shyok valley
پاڪستان ۾ مقام
جاگرافي بيهڪ: 35°10′N 76°20′E
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بلتستان ڊويزن	گانڇي ضلعو
بلندي	8,532.504 ft (2,600.707, ميل)
آبادي
• ڪل	175,000

Haldi Cones

Thally Glacier

Thally broq

مشابرم وادي جو ھڪ ڳوٺ

خپلو(انگريزي: Khaplu) پاڪستان جي ھڪ انتظامي يونٽ گلگت بلتستان جي بلتستان ڊويزن جي گانڇي ضلعي جو ھڪ شھر آھي جتي بلتي ٻولي ڳالهائي ويندي آهي اسڪردو جي اوڀر ۾ 103 ڪلوميٽرن جي فاصلي تي واقع آهي. ھي شھر بلتستان جي ياگبو گھراڻي جي ٻيو نومبر وڏي۽ پراڻي بادشاھت ھيو. جيڪا شيوڪ نديءَ جي لداخ واري واپاري لنگھ جي محافظ ھئي.

Khaplu is a base for trekking into the Hushe valley which leads to Masherbrum mountains. Many famous mountains, such as Masherbrum, K-6, K-7, Sherpi Kangh, Sia Kangri, Saltoro Kangri and Siachen etc. are located there.

History

The first mention of the former small kingdom called Khápula is in Mirza Haidar's (1499–1551) famous work Tarikh-i-Rashidi (p. 410). The author lists the Khaplu district of Balti(stan). Khaplu was also very well known in the 17th and 18th century due to its close political and family ties with the royal family of the neighbouring country of Ladakh.

The first European to visit Khaplu was probably Captain Claude Martin Wade (1794–1861), who mentioned "Chílú" in 1835 in a Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal essay. Subsequently, William Moorcroft and George Trebeck wrote in their 1841 book (Part II, p 264): "Kafalun is a province west of Nobra, on the left bank of the Shayuk." Godfrey Thomas Vigne has Khaplu 1835-1838, relying in particular on the local mountain fortress, commented that he was still in an intact condition vorfand (Part 2, pp. 317f).سانچو:Clarification needed Alexander Cunningham (p. 28ff), who did not visit Baltistan, published a brief geographical description of Khaplu and a genealogy of its rulers in 1854. Thomas Thomson travelled in November 1847 and briefly described a place of remarkable beauty for Tibet (p. 210ff). Knight reported on his visit to Khaplu (p. 253): "This fair spot what Kapalu, the richest district in Baltistan, and Regarded as a very Garden of Eden by the Balti people." Jane E. Duncan reached Khaplu in 1904 and stayed there for three weeks. A detailed report on her stay in Khaplu is well worth reading.سانچو:Whom De Filippi, who reached Khaplu in 1913, characterized the site as follows: "It is, perhaps, the loveliest oasis in all the region." Further information on Khaplu was included in a travel report by Arthur Neve (p. 99f). Recent descriptions can be found in the guidebooks Arora, pp. 211f, Lonely Planet, pp. 306f and Beek, pp. 252ff.

Geography

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Khaplu in autumn

Khaplu lies at the base of the Karakoram Range.

In contrast to Skardu and Shigar, the territory of Khaplu was not focused on a single large rive