VILLAGES: x
AREA: 17,736.32 km2
LOCATION: Pakistan (NWFP)
PRIVY PURSE: Rs
DYNASTY: xx
CAPITAL: Karimabad (1960)
ACCESSION: 25th September 1974
RELIGION: Muslim (Ismaili)
POPULATION: 13,241 (1931)
PRESENT RULER: HH Mir GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN II, The Mir of Hunza from 1976 (United Kingdom)
born 1941, married HH Rani Atiqa, and has issue.
Crown Prince Salim Khan
Prince Shehryar Khan
Prince Salman Khan
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: An independent principality for over 900 years, Hunza was a vassal state of Kashmir for nearly 90 years till 1947, it had come under British control from 1889. Rulers were...
Queen Girghis (Sahib Khan), Queen of Gilgit and Hunza 1435/-
Queen Noor Bibi (daughter), Queen of Hunza
Mir SHAH KHAN I, Tham of Hunza
Mir MURI THUM, Tham of Hunza -/1521
Mir AYASHO II, Tham of Hunza 1521/1540?
[Mir Hyder Khan, Tham of Hunza 1540?/-
Mir Yusuf Khan, Tham of Hunza
Mir Malik Thum, Tham of Hunza
Mir Mirza Thum I, Tham of Hunza]
Mir SALIM KHAN I, Tham of Hunza
Mir SHAH SULTAN KHAN, Tham of Hunza
[Mir Harithum Khan, Tham of Hunza -/1710]
Mir SHAHBAZ KHAN, Tham of Hunza 1710/1740
[Mir Shah Khan II, Tham of Hunza 1740/-
Mir Ghulam Khan, Tham of Hunza -/-]
Mir SHAHBEG KHAN, Tham of Hunza -/1750
Mir SHAH KISRO KHAN, Tham of Hunza 1750/1780
Mir MIRZA KHAN II, Tham of Hunza 1780/1790
Mir SALIM KHAN II, Tham of Hunza 1790/1825, married and had issue. He died 1825.
Mir Ghazanfar Ali Khan I (qv)
Mir GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN I, Tham of Hunza 1825/1864, married and had issue. He died 1864
Mir Muhammed Ghazan Khan I (qv)
Mir MUHAMMED GHAZAN KHAN I, Tham of Hunza 1864/1886, married and had issue. He was shot to death by his son in 1886 (#2).
Mir Safdar Ali Khan (qv)
Mir SAFDAR ALI KHAN, Tham of Hunza 1886/1892 (deposed), born 1865, died 1930.
Raja Mir Sir MUHAMMED NAZIM KHAN, Raja (from 1909) of Hunza [15.9.1892] - [22.7.1938], born 1867, K.C.S.I., C.I.E. [cr.1903], K.C.I.E. [cr.1921] (#1), married and had issue. He died 22nd July 1938.
Prince Dr. Sahib Khan, married and has issue.
Prince Adam Khan, classical guitarist (see his web-site), born 5th September 1974, married Princess Amna Khan, daughter of Prince Saeed Khan of Nagar.
Prince Alexander Khan, married 10th September 2004, Joanne Davies, and has issue. (Wales, U.K.)
Prince Anderson Davies Khan
Princess Leila Khan (Mrs. Leila Inman), married 12th March 2005, Mr. David Inman, and has issue. (London, U.K.)
Charlotte Anna Inman
Raja Mir MUHAMMED GHAZAN KHAN II C.B.E., Raja of Hunza 1938/1946, born 1895, died 1946.
Maj.-Gen. HH Mir Muhammed Jamal Khan (qv)
Prince Ayash Khan
Maj.-Gen. HH Mir MUHAMMED JAMAL KHAN H.Pk., H.J., The Mir of Hunza 1946/1976, born 23rd September 1912, married 1934, a Princess of Nagar, and had issue. He died 18th March 1976. (Karimabad Palace, Pakistan)
HH Mir Ghazanfar Ali Khan II (qv)
Prince Abbass Khan
Prince Amen Khan
Princess Duri Shahwar
Princess Nilofar, married Mr. G. Q. Khan, and has issue. (Manchester, U.K.)
Ajaz Qadir Khan, married and has issue.
Samah Ajaz Khan
Muhammad Rayan Khan
Zuhair Khan
Mehreen Qadir Khan
Princess Malika
Princess Hussn
Princess Mehrul Jamal
Princess Fauzia
Princess Azra
HH Mir GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN II, The Mir of Hunza (see above)
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1. "Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage", 1916 London, p.469
2. ref. IOR/R/2/1079/246 - date: 1886