SPITI

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 708 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SPITI , an extensive

minor

division of Kangra

district

DISTRICT

in the Punjab,

India

INDIA
INDIA, FRENCH

. Area, 2155 sq. m.; the

population

POPULATION (Lat. populus,
people
- PEOPLE
; populare, to populate)

(Igo') being only 3231, all Buddhists. It consists of an outlying Tibetan valley among the external ranges of the Himalayas, which has a mean

elevation

ELEVATION

of 12,981 ft. and contains on its borders many peaks over 20,000 ft. and one in the outer Himalayas of 23,064 ft. in altitude. Spiti originally formed

part

PART

of the kingdom of Ladakh, and came into the hands of the British in 1846. The river Spiti rises at the converging

angle

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form,
angus
- ANGUS, EARLS OF
, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

of the Kamzam and outer Himalayan ranges at a height of 20,073 ft., drains the whole valley of Spiti, and falls into the Sutlej after a course of 120 M.

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