The Kumaon chieftaincy (English: koo-MAUWN; Kumaoni: कुमाऊं राज्य; Tibetan: ཀུ་མའོ་རྒྱལ་ཕྲན།; HT: Kumāū̃; [kʊˈmä.ʊ̃], also anglicised as Kemaon), also known as Kurmanchal (कूर्मांचल), was a chieftaincy in the Himalayas. The principality was established by Vasu Dev of the Katyuri dynasty in the 7th century after he unified many small principalities.
The Kumaon chieftaincy (English: koo-MAUWN; Kumaoni: कुमाऊं राज्य; Tibetan: ཀུ་མའོ་རྒྱལ་ཕྲན།; HT: Kumāū̃; [kʊˈmä.ʊ̃], also anglicised as Kemaon), also known as Kurmanchal (कूर्मांचल), was a chieftaincy in the Himalayas. The principality was established by Vasu Dev of the Katyuri dynasty in the 7th century after he unified many small principalities.
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