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Bidar Fort

🇮🇳 India

Bidar Fort in India
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Country
🇮🇳 India
Type
Fortress
Fame
Notable
Coordinates
17.9219°, 77.5236°
Open data
Wikidata Q3814353

Bidar Fort is located in the old city area, Bidar, Karnataka, India. The fort, the city and the district are all affixed with the name Bidar. Sultan Ahmad Shah I of the Bahmanid dynasty shifted his capital from Gulbarga to Bidar in 1427 and built his fort along with a number of Islamic monuments. There are over 30 monuments inside Bidar fort.

The complex was put by UNESCO on its "tentative list" to become a World Heritage Site in 2014, with others in the region, under the name Monuments and Forts of the Deccan Sultanate. The Bidar Fort has witnessed many historical milestones – the rise and fall of Bahmani dynasty, rise and separation of the five Deccan Sultans, capture by the Barid Shahi and Adil Shahi dynasties, and finally being won by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in the blockade of Bidar in 1657.

Bidar was the capital of Bahmani Kingdom in the 14th century. This fort was built by Ahmed Shah Wali Bahmani. The Fort was renovated in the 15th century by Sultan Ahmad Shah-I as he shifted his capital from Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) to Bidar.

Text adapted from “Bidar Fort” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Bidar Fort ranks #800 of 2,435 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #38 of the 80 mapped in India. See how India compares in the castle statistics.

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