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Draft:Burushal

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Burushal state or" Bru zha land" is the old name for " Gilgit Division" of the Gilgit Baltistan the region of Pakistan. Burushal, which was once an independent state in the past, is located in the Gilgit-Baltistan province of Pakistan. Burushal is a word from Burushaski which means "headland of the Brušo/Burusho nation". The inhabitants here are called Burusho/Brušo and their dialect is Brušski/burushaski. The Burusho people have the distinction of being the oldest inhabitants of the northwest of India and the first settlers. And they may have been before the migration of Indo Aryans. The history of Burushal is very old. Today we don't know what exactly is it's origion At it's peaks it's was extended from Tibet to Persia (today wakhan Afghanistan) which means it includes Ladakh, Jammu, Kashmir, Gilgit, and Chitral.