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idolatrous people whose description agrees with that of the Kafirs of the 
present day. It evidently then included Kafiristan. 
Alberuni’s India, (written about A.D, 1000').— Sackau’s Translation. 
Vol. I, p. 207.—- Leaving the ravine, by which you enter Kashmir, and 
entering the plateau, then you have for a march of two more days on your 
left the mountains of Bolor and Shamilan, Turkish tribes who are called 
Bhattavaryan. Their king has the title Bhatta Shah. Their towns are 
Gilgit, Aswira, and Shiltas, and their language is the Turkish. 
Baron Curzonof Kedleston. —The Pamirs and the Source of the Oxus, 
1898.— Very many authorities are quoted, and the opinion arrived at that 
Bolor included Kafiristan, Upper Chitral, Yasin, Gilgit and Hunza 
Nagar. 
