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Nagarkot (Nepali: नगरकोट) is a former Village Development Committee located 32 km east of Kathmandu, Nepal in Bhaktapur District in Bagmati Province and as of 2015 part of Nagarkot Municipality. At the time of the 2011 census it had a population of 4,571 and had 973 [1] houses in it. [2]
The Kangra Fort is a historic fort located in the Kangra district of the Himachal Pradesh state in India. The fort is also known as 'Nagarkot' and 'Kot Kangra'. [1] This fort stands on a hillock between two rivers (Manjhi and Banganga), among the foothills of the Dhauladhar range.
There were hundreds of well-defended forts that lay between Ghazni and Nagarkot fort, and so it highly unlikely that his looting expedition ever reached Kangra. Also, this claim is negated by historians who have cited various sources to say that the fort was impregnable and remained unconquered until the conquest by Emperor Jehangir in 1622.
Legend says that one day Pandavas saw Goddess Durga in their dream in which she told them that she is situated in the Nagarkot village and if they want themselves to be secure they should make a temple for her in that area otherwise they will be destroyed. That same night they made a magnificent temple for her in the Nagarkot village.
The Trigarta capital was moved from Jalandhara to Nagarkot (Kangra) in 1070 A.D. due to constant contact in Jalandhar with various ambitious invading forces who usually were en route to central India. [16] Ferishta mentioned another account of the 1st century A.D. when the king of Kanauj, Raja Ram Deo, went on conquest and overran the hills. He ...
The Nagarkot massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on December 14, 2005, at the Kali Devi temple in Chihandanda near Nagarkot, Nepal.Off-duty RNA sergeant Basudev Thapa (वासुदेव थापा), 26, indiscriminately shot at villagers, celebrating at the temple, with an L1A1 SLR, killing 11 and injuring 19 more, before he shot and killed himself.
The battle was the last occasion on which Mahmud and Anandapala could confront their armies. [7] Mahmud pursued the fleeing Hindu Shahi troops as far as the Kangra valley, where they took refuge in the fort of Bhim or Nagarkot, but capitulated after three days.
The Nagarkot Panoramic Hiking Trail is a 12 km hike near the community of Nagarkot, It is about a 3 to 3.5 hour walk, with views of the Himalayas . It includes the Nagarkot Nature Trail and the Tamang Village Walk.