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Chilas
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or a hill village in the Gilgit Baltistan Province of Pakistan. It is dominated by a fort on the left bank of the Indus, about 50 m. below Bunji, 4100 ft. above sea-level. It was occupied by a British force early in 1893, when a determined attack was made on the place by the Kohistanis from the Indus valley districts to the south-west, aided by contingents from Darel and Tangir west of Gilgit and north of the Indus. Its importance consists in its position with reference to the KashmirGilgit route via Astor, which it flanks. It is now connected with Bunji by a metalled road. Chilas is also important from its command of a much shorter and more direct route to Gilgit from the Punjab frontier than that of Kashmir and the Burzil pass. By the Kashmir route Gilgit is 400 m. from the rail-head at Rawalpindi. The Kagan route would bring it 100 m. nearer, but the unsettled condition of the country through which the road passes has been a bar to its general use.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Chilas'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/c/chilas.html. 1910.
