Place · Gorkhali forward fort · Nepal
Nuwakot
Also known as Nuwakot, Nuvakot, Saat Talle Durbar, Prithvi Narayan Shah
The hill fort north-west of Kathmandu that Prithvi Narayan Shah took in 1744, his first substantial conquest, and used for twenty-five years as the base from which he blockaded and finally took the valley. He built the seven-storey Saat Talle Durbar here and died in it in 1775.
- Date
- 1744–1775
- Function
- Military & resistance
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 27.917, 85.167
Worth knowing
Holding Nuwakot meant holding the Trishuli route between the valley and Tibet, so the unification of Nepal was begun by cutting the Malla cities' trade rather than by assaulting them. The palace was badly damaged in the 2015 earthquake and has been restored since.
Connections (1)
- CampaignKathmandu Durbar Square
Prithvi Narayan Shah took Nuwakot in 1744 and used it for twenty-five years to blockade the Trishuli route between the Malla cities and Tibet, then took Kathmandu in 1768. The unification of Nepal was begun by cutting the valley's trade rather than by assaulting its walls, and he died in the seven-storey palace at Nuwakot in 1775.
Sources
Wikipedia, “Nuwakot”. Ludwig Stiller, The Rise of the House of Gorkha (1973); Nepal Department of Archaeology restoration records.
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