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                                                                                                                                      Ranikot Fort

                                                                                                                                      The Ranikot Fort also known as Dewar-e-Sindh (Great
                                                                                                                                      Wall of Sindh), with a circumference of about 26 km or 16
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                                                                                                                                      Range, about 30 km southwest of Sann, in Jamshoro
                                                                                                                                      District, Sindh, Pakistan. Ranikot is the most talismanic
                       Learn New Things                               Avoid Information Overload                                      wonder of Sindh. Visible from five kilometers away its
                       Online Courses, Books Crosswords & Quiz        Watch News Once, Use Reliable Sources                           massive undulating walls twist and dip over the hills. Its
                                                                                                                                      walls are built with dressed sandstone and reinforced with
                                                                                                                                      45 bastions along the outer wall, of which 7 are rectangular
                       Choose Healthy Foods                                                                                           and the remaining are round. All modified through the ages
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                                                                                                                                                                                      had sent  their  families  to  Thar  and  Kachchh  when
                                                                                                                                                                                      Afsharids attacked Sindh during the times of Kalhoras.
                       Quality Family Social Time                                                                                                                                     However, after acquiring the rule of Sindh, they wanted a
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                                                                                                                                                                                      rebuild this fort to their needs.

                                                                                                                                                                                      Rahimdad Khan Molai Sheedai holds the view that its
                                                                                                                                                                                      location in Kohistan on the western frontiers of Sindh gave
                                                                                                                                                                                      it its strategic value. Whereas Mazher Ansari is of  the
                                                                                                                                                                                      opinion  that,  it  was  first  constructed  in  the Achaemenid
              I-read                                                                                                                  The original purpose and architects of Ranikot Fort are
                                                                                                                                                                                      Dynasty of the Persian Empire (550 – 330 BC).




                                                                                                                                      unknown. Some archaeologists attribute it to  Arabs or
                                                                                                                                      possibly built by a Persian noble under the Abbasids by
                                                                                                                                      Imran Bin Musa Barmaki who was the Governor of Sindh
                                                                                                                                      in 836. Others have suggested a much earlier period of
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                                                                                                                                      Persians and at times to the Greeks. Despite the fact that
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                                                                                                                                      old city inside the fort and the present structure has little
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