The Sultanate of Hazara or Hazara Sultanate also natively known as Hazara i Karlugh was an early modern empire based in

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between the 15th and 18th centuries. The sultanate encompassed the modern

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, bordering Kashmir Subah to the east,

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to the south,

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to the west and the semi autonomous states of

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to the north. The Karlugh Turks ruled the region autonomously under the Timurids until 1480, establishing their sovereignty. Mughal Hazara (Pakhli) was established as a Sarkar of the

in 1526 in the Mughal documents. It was not until the conquest of

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in 1586 that Hazara/Pakhli was demoted to a Parganah under the newly established Kashmir Sarkar of the Kabul Subah and was often called Hazara/Pakhli Parganah but in 1638 with the raise of status of the Kashmir Sarkar to Kashmir Subah, Hazara was also raised to a Sarkar hence the name Hazara/Pakhli Sarkar. The

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refers to this entire region as Sarkar Pakhli.Abu'l-Fazl, 16-17th century. tr. H.S. Jarrett, v 2, p 397 (1891)

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