Chitral

A view of Chitral

Chitral

Chitral (Urdu: چترال‎, Khowar: چھترار; otherwise called Chetrar), interpreted as field in the local dialect

Khowar, is the capital of the Chitral Region, arranged on the western bank of the Kunar Stream (likewise called Chitral Waterway), in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It additionally served as the capital of the previous regal state of Chitral. The town is at the foot of Tirich Mir, the most astounding crest of the Hindu Kush, which is 25,289 ft (7,708 m) high. It has a populace of 20,000. The height of the valley is 3,700 ft (1100 m).

Location

Chitral is situated on the west bank of the Chitral Stream (or Kunar Waterway) at the foot of Tirich Mir which at 7,708 meters (25,289 ft) is the most elevated summit of the Hindu Kush. Until 1969, it served as the capital of the royal state of Chitral.

Geography And Access

The simplest access to Chitral, other than via air, is in the southwest along the Kunar Valley from Jalalabad. However the Pakistan (Durand Line) keeps this from being utilized as an inner course to the south. Alternate courses are over high mountain passes. To the south, the 3,200 meters (10,500 ft) Lowari Pass leads 365 kilometers (227 mi) to Peshawar. In the north, the most straightforward course amid summer runs over the 3,798 meters (12,461 ft) Broghol to the east, there is a 405 kilometers (252 mi) course to Gilgit over the 3,719 meters (12,201 ft) Shandur Pass. In the west, the 4,300 meters (14,100 ft) Dorah Pass The domain is cut off by snow from whatever remains of the nation for up to six months a year, an issue impending mitigated by the fruition of the Lowari Tunnel.

                                                                   History

Chitral Fort 1895

Nothing complete is recorded about the town's first pioneers. In the third century AD, Kanishka, the Buddhist leader of the Kushan domain, occupied Chitral. In the fourth century AD, the Chinese overran the valley. Raees administer over Chitral started in 1320 and arrived at an end in the fifteenth century. From 1571 onwards Chitral was the capital of the regal state of Chitral under the guideline of the Katur Tradition.

Climate

As opposed to all the more southerly valleys of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Chitral has a dry Mediterranean atmosphere (Köppen Csa) with just about no precipitation amid summers. Precipitation happens mostly from spring storms achieved by western frontal frameworks. In the winter the evening temperature sometimes drops to −10 C. Winter snowfall in the town might be overwhelming with an aggregation of up to two feet being truly basic, at higher rises snowfall can arrive at as high as 20 meters (70 ft).

Languages 

The overall public is predominantly of talk the Chitrali language.the Norwegian language specialist Georg Morgenstierne composed that Chitral is the region of the best etymological differences on the planet despite the fact that Chitrali is the prevalent dialect of Chitral, more than ten different dialects are talked there also. A few others dialects are normally utilized are: Chitrali, Dameli, Palula, Kalasha, Khowar, Marandehi, Balti, and Burushaski.