Derajat
Sign in to saveDerajat (Urdu: , the plural of the word 'dera' ) is a historical and cultural region in central Pakistan, bounded by the Indus River to the east and the Sulaiman Mountains to the west. The provinces of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Balochistan meet in this region.
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- Instance of
- cultural region
- Country
- Pakistan
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- partially coincident with
- Saraikistan
- territory overlaps
- Balochistan
- language used
- Derawali
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- Mughal Era
- Nader Shah's invasion
- Durrani Empire
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Derajat (Urdu: , the plural of the word 'dera' ) is a historical and cultural region in central Pakistan, bounded by the Indus River to the east and the Sulaiman Mountains to the west. The provinces of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Balochistan meet in this region.
Derajat includes the present-day administrative districts of Dera Ismail Khan, Dera Ghazi Khan, Rajanpur, Taunsa and Tank in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces. The "Baloch Derajat" (consisting of Dera Bugti, Dera Allah Yar and Dera Murad Jamali) is adjacent to Derajat towards the southwest in Balochistan. The people of Derajat are called Derawal, and the varieties of Saraiki they speak are collectively called Derawali dialect. Pashto and Balochi languages are spoken in the northern and western parts of Derajat, respectively.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Derajat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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