Lacha

Lacha (लाचा) is a gotra of Jats.

Jat Gotras Namesake

• Lacha = Lechieni (Pliny.vi.32).

Mention by Pliny

Pliny mentions Arabia.....Next to these are the Chaculatæ; then the town of Sibi, by the Greeks called Apate⁴²; the Arsi, the Codani, the Vadei, who dwell in a large town, the Barasasæi, the Lechieni, and the island of Sygaros⁴³, into the interior of which no dogs are admitted, and so being exposed on the sea shore, they wander about there and are left to die.

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42 A name which looks very much like "fraud," or "cheating," as Hardouin observes, from the Greek ἀπάτη.

43 Off the Promontory of Ras-el-Had.

History

H. W. Bellew mentions a place called Lacha near Indus River:

After this the Khattaks were attacked by the Baloch, and forced to go north-east to the Koh Khungan. From this they gradually spread by Karbogha, Teri, Chautra, Lacha, &c, to the Indus, Whilst the Khattaks were thus working their way eastward, the Bangash were being driven out of Kurram by the Tori, who, it seems, were advancing from the south-east diagonally across tho route by which the Khattaks had come. The Bangash, on their part, being ousted from their possessions in Kurram, fell back upon their allied tribe, the Orakzai, and contested the land with them Whilst they were thus engaged in hostilities, the Khattak took tho opportunity to extend their lands to Tora Chapra and Patiala at the expense of the Orakzai, and thus became neighbours of the Bangash, a hill ridge between Lacha and Gadakhel being the separating boundary, which it is to this day. Gradually as the Khattaks increased in strength, they extended northward, and pressing aside the Orakzai and Afridi to the higher hills, took possession of all the Indus riverine up to the Kabul river, and even advanced across it, as before mentioned, into the Yusufzai country.

Lake Lacha in Russia

Lake Lacha is a freshwater lake, located in the south of Kargopolsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast in Russia, 7 kilometres south of the town of Kargopol. It is the largest lake in Arkhangelsk Oblast, with a surface area of 334 square kilometres and a basin area of 12,600 square kilometres. Lake Lacha is the source of the Onega River, one of the major waterways of the White Sea basin.

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