Heritage record
Naukot Fort
SindhFortUNESCO Tentative ListProtected
This fort is said to have been built by Mir Karam Ali Khan Talpur in 1814 CE. It is roughly square in plan measuring 195 x 183 m. The fortification wall is built of baked bricks laid in mud mortar. On the southern side exists an arched gateway flanked by semi-circular bastions. It was used by the Talpur Mirs as a stronghold cum residence.
Photographs: Department of Archaeology & Museums national inventory record, displayed from the official source (doam.gov.pk). Not PWHI photography.
- Record ID
- 5504
- Province / territory
- Sindh
- District
- Tharparkar
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Fort
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Tentative List
- Naukot Fort
- Coordinates
- 24.84472, 69.45010 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Jansen, Michael, Yasmeen Lari. (2015). Inventory of Cultural Property in the Province of Sindh, Pakistan, 2015. Government of Sindh, Vol 4.
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