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Kashmir

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Noun

1. cashmere, jammu and kashmir, kashmir

an area in southwestern Asia whose sovereignty is disputed between Pakistan and India

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Kashmir

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noun
a region of SW central Asia: from the 16th century ruled by the Moguls, Afghans, Sikhs, and British successively; since 1947 disputed between India, Pakistan, and China; 84 000 sq km (33 000 sq miles) in the northwest are held by Pakistan and in part known as Azad Kashmir (Free Kashmir), part as the Northern Areas; an area of 42 735 sq km (16 496 sq miles) in the east (the Aksai Chin) is held by China; the remainder was in 1956 officially incorporated into India as the state of Jammu and Kashmir; traversed by the Himalaya and Karakoram mountain ranges and the Rivers Jhelum and Indus; a fruit-growing and cattle-grazing region, with a woollen industry. Capitals: (Jammu and Kashmir) Srinagar (summer), Jammu (winter); (Azad Kashmir) Muzaffarabad; (Northern Areas) Gilgit
noun
a variant spelling of cashmere

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Kashmir

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1. 
region in S Asia, between Afghanistan & Tibet: since 1846, part of Jammu and Kashmir
2. 
Jammu and Kashmir
3. 
Vale ofvalley of the Jhelum River, in W Kashmir

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Kashmir

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1. A historical region of northwest India and northeast Pakistan. Conquered by the Mughal emperor Akbar in 1586, it later came under the control of Afghanistan (1757) and a Sikh empire (1819). After 1846 it was part of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir.

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