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Kashmir

• Free Kashmir
• autonomous territory in Northern Pakistan
• own name: Azad Kashmir

Contents

• Flag

• Meaning/Origin of the Flag

• Coat of Arms

• Map

• Numbers and Facts

• History

Flag

National flag,
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Source: Wikipedia (EN)

Meaning/Origin of the Flag

The flag of the "Free Kashmir", what means the by Pakistan controled part of Kashmir, consists in three parts: The lower half containes nine green-white stripes, the upper staff quadrant is orange-coloured (saffrant yellow), the upper flying end is green with a white half-moon and a star. The four white stripes stand for the four rivers of Kashmirs, the orange-coloured quadrant stands for the Hindu and Sikhs, and the green field with the white half-moon and star stands for the Moslems, but even for Pakistan.

Source: Wikipedia (EN)

Coat of Arms

since 1947,
Coat of arms of Kashmir,
Source: Government of Pakistan,
Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Map

Location:

Map: Freeware, University of Texas Libraries, modyfied by: Volker Preuß

Numbers and Facts

Area: 4.494 square miles

Inhabitants: 4.045.366 (2017)

Density of Population: 900 inh./sq.mi.

Capital: Muzaffarabad, 96.000 inh. (2010)

official Language: Urdu

other Languages: Pahari, Hindko, Gojri, Kashmiri, English

Currency: Pakistani currency

Time Zone: GMT + 5 h

Source: Wikipedia (D)

History

to 1346 · Kashmir is ruled by Hindu Kings

ab 1346 · Kashmir is ruled by islamic rulers

1586 · Kashmir comes to the islamic Mogul Empire under Akbar

1756 · Kashmir comes to Afghanistan

1819 · Kashmir comes to the Sikh Empire

1846 · Kashmir becomes British protectorate

1947 · partition of British-India into Indian Union (for Hindus) and Pakistan (for Moslems), the Hindu Maharadscha Hari Singh of Kaschmir declares the joining of Kashmir to the Indian Union, First Kashmir War, Pakistan occupies the northwest of the mostly islamic country, India the southeast

1949 · armistice, establishment of the Pakistani Azad Kashmir and the Indian Jammu and Kashmir

1957 · Jammu and Kashmir becomes an Indian Federal State

1962 · China occupied in large parts the landscape Ladakh (Aksai Chin)

1963 · Pakistan cedes a part of Azad Kashmir (Taxkorgan) to China

1965–1966 · Second Kashmir War between India and Pakistan

1966 · Peace Treaty of Tashkent

1997–1998 · once more struggles between India and Pakistan

Source: Atlas zur Geschichte, Wikipedia (EN), Discovery '97