The Skardu Valley is located in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. The valley is about 10km wide and 40km long. It is at the confluece of the River Shigar and River Indus. It surrounded by the large Karakoram Range. With the nearby lakes and mountains, it is an important tourist location in Pakistan.The first mention of Skardu dated to the first half of the 16th Century. Mirza Haidar (1499-1551) described in his in the forties of the 16th Century wrote Tarikh-i-Rashidi Baltistan and also called Askardu as one of the districts of this country. With the conquest of Kashmir in 1586 by the Mughal Emperor Akbar (1556-1605) were starting with Ali Sher Khan Anchan, the kings of Skardu mentioned as ruler of Little Tibet in the historiography of the Mughal Empire. These are, in particular histories of Al-Badaoni, Abu'l Fazl, 'Abdu-l Hamid Lahori, Saqi Must'ad Khan and Inayat Khan. Will owe the first mention of Skardu in a European literary work of Frenchman François Bernier (1625-1688). Bernier was a physician and world traveler who reached India in 1659 and 1663 in the wake of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb (1658-1707) traveled to Kashmir. In 1670 published his travel experiences, he describes not only the encounter with a King of Little Tibet - these related to Murad Khan - he also mentions Eskerdou (= Skardu) as one of the places of Baltistan. After this mention of Little Tibet and Skardu through the country Bernier Little Tibet and Skardu was quickly shot into the Asia maps produced in Europe. Skardu was first mentioned as Eskerdow the map "Indiae orientalis nec non insularum adiacentium nova descriptio" by Nicolaes Visscher, published 1680-1700, and also the first recorded Baltistan as Tibet Minor.
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