Khalatse
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| Union Territory : | Ladakh | ||
| District : | Leh | ||
| Location : | 34 ° 19 ′ N , 76 ° 0 ′ E | ||
| Height : | 2975 m | ||
| Residents : | 767 (2011) | ||
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Khalatse (or Khalsi or Khaltse ) is a place 337 km east of Srinigar on the road to Leh .
The road crosses the Indus in this place. About 1600 people live in the village. The importance of the place results from its position at the point where the road meets the valley of the Indus. The ruins of a fortified customs house lie near the village.
There is the remains of a heading in Khalatse with the name Maharaja Uvima who is identified as the Kushana king, Vima Kadphises .
Lha chen Naglug (circa 1150–1175), a Dard King, built a bridge over the Indus at the exact point where today's bridge is. as well as the Bragnag fortress about 1.6 km above today's location as a backup for the bridge. The bridge was built to compete with the Babu Khar Bridge, which is just 4.8 km away, and clearly served the purpose of collecting fees from travelers. The fortress is said to be the first to be built in the country. The ruins of the fortress as well as extensive fields and irrigation systems can still be seen today. Lha chen Naglug also built a fortress in Wanla .
There are a number of historical rock art . They show, among other things, a woman from the Dard ethnic group who carries a basket on her back and a man who hunts an antelope. Some men wear flat hats. The clothes are similar to those of today's residents of Da and Hann . In front of the fortress in Khalatse there is an inscription in an Indian language, which probably dates from the time of the rule of the Dard.
A German mission station of the Moravian Brethren, which was connected to the main mission station in Leh, was operated here for around 50 years until India became independent in 1947. The mission station played an important role in medical care and schooling, but only a few church entries were made.
If you approach Khaltse on the road from Srinigar, it becomes clear that you are in a Buddhist region . You can see Chorten small stupas , mani stones and prayer flags . Upstream and downstream of the Khalatse, the people are almost all Buddhists. The Brokpa or Dard predominate downstream .
Khalatse is known for its apricots . Since Khalatse is about 400 m lower than Leh, two harvests per year are possible here. When sowing takes place in Leh in late May, the plants will have already grown here. The first plant is usually grim a barley ( Hordeum vulgare L. var. Nudum Hook. F.) In an old form with an easier to remove cover. This is used to make tsampa , a staple food in Ladakh . The harvest time is usually mid-July. To this end, Buckwheat , turnips and other vegetables grown.
climate
There is a local steppe climate in Khalatse . The average annual rainfall in Lamayuru is 224 mm. The annual mean temperature is 7.3 ° C.
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literature
- August Hermann Francke: A History of Ladakh. (Original: A History of Western Tibet. 1907). Edition with critical comments by SS Gergan and FM Hassnain. Sterling Publishers, New Delhi 1977.
- August Hermann Francke: Antiquities of Indian Tibet. 2 volumes. Calcutta 1914/1926. (Reprinted from S. Chand, New Delhi 1972) OCLC 1032045 .
- Rolf and Margaret Schettler: Kashmir, Ladakh & Zanskar. Lonely Planet, South Yarra, Vic., Australia 1981, ISBN 0-908086-21-0 .
- Janet Rizvi: Ladakh: Crossroads of High Asia. 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, Delhi 1996, ISBN 0-19-564546-4 .