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Name: Kingdom of Guge

Type: Polity

Start: 1073 AD

End: 1680 AD

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Was one of the kingdoms that emerged after the end of the Tibetan Empire, a period known as the Tibetan Era of Fragmentation.

Establishment


  • January 1073: Purang-Guge Kingdom splits into independent Guge and Purang, ruled by the brothers Tsede and Tsensong respectively. Another brother Tsende may have founded the Khasa Kingdom.
  • Chronology


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    1. Tibet - Era of Fragmentation


    Was an era of disunity in Tibetan history lasting from the death of the Tibetan Empire's last emperor, Langdarma, in 842 until Drogön Chögyal Phagpa became the Imperial Preceptor of the three provinces of Tibet in 1253, under the Yuan dynasty.


    2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 1413: Bushahr, also spelt as 'Bashahr' and 'Bussahir' or 'Bushair' was a princely state in India during the British Raj. It was located in the hilly western Himalaya promontory bordering Tibet in the northern part of colonial Punjab region.

  • January 1551: The Baise and Chaubisi Rajya (Nepali petty kingdom) existed since the early XVI Century.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1681: Tsaparang and the Guge kingdom were later conquered in 1679-80 by the Lhasa-based Central Tibetan government under the leadership of the 5th Dalai Lama, driving out the Ladakhis.
  • Selected Sources


  • European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, p. 78. retrieved 26 March 2024 on http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/ebhr/pdf/EBHR_50-51.pdf
  • Unification of Nepal and pre-unification kingdoms. Historum. 31 July 2019. https://historum.com/t/unification-of-nepal-and-pre-unification-kingdoms.179881/
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