Place · medieval mud-brick fort · India
Mud Fort, Abohar
A ruined medieval mud-brick fort in Abohar town, Fazilka district, on what was the old Multan-Delhi caravan route. Associated in local tradition with Rai Muhammad Bakhtiar's thirteenth-century garrison and later Mughal reconstruction; now a protected archaeological site of weathered packed-earth bastions and a central tank.
Battles & turning pointsDynasties & capitals
- Function
- Military & resistance
- Patron dynasty
- Sultanate / Mughal
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 30.144, 74.199
Sources
Standard reference (Archaeological Survey of India).
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