Brushal is the region inhabited by the
Burusho people
The Burusho, or Brusho ( Burushaski: , ''burúśu''Hunzai, A. N. N., Burushaski Research Academy, & University of Karachi. (2006). Burushaski Urdu Dictionary - Volume 1 / بروشسکی اردو لغت - جلد اول (الف تا څ). Bureau o ...
, corresponding to the valleys of
Hunza,
Nagir,
Yasin, and historically,
Gilgit
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. Along with
Baltistan
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and
Shinaki, inhabited by the
Balti and
Shina people
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respectively, it is one of the three
ethno-geographic regions in
Gilgit Baltistan
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.
The Tibetan sources refer to the region as "Bru-za". The name appears as such in these sources as early as in the 7th century CE, when the king of
Tibet
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married a
Bru-za princess.
A. H. Dani identifies Brushal with the little Balor mentioned in the pre-Islamic and Islamic sources. Brushal was the name of a much larger region in past then the present extent of
Brushaski speakers. According to Karl Jettmar Brushal in earlier sources referred to the Gilgit valley when it was still under occupation of Burusho people, before they were displaced by the incoming
Shins, in sometimes about 10th century CE. Kreutzmann suggests that Brushal was the name with which northern neighbours of Burusho people, such as
Chitral
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, knew their country while the eastern neighbours in
Kashmir
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,
Ladakh
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and Baltistan called the region as "Kanjut". According to him the two terms are "to be considered coterminous", and refer to the same region, the Hunza-Nagir valleys.
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* {{Cite book , last=Kreutzmann , first=Hermann , url= , title=Karakoram in Transition: Culture, Development and Ecology in the Hunza Valley , date=2006 , publisher=Oxford University Press, location=Karachi , isbn=978-0-19-547210-3 , language=en
Regions of Gilgit-Baltistan