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It is a citadel built on a hillock that provided as a vantage point for the Kakatiya rulers in medieval India. The fort was built sometime around the 12th century and during the reign of the Kakatiya ruler, Rudra Deva and was called Methuku durgam, meaning cooked rice in Telugu .
Golconda is a fortified citadel and ruined city located on the western outskirts of Hyderabad, Telangana, India. [1] [2] The fort was originally built by Kakatiya ruler Pratāparudra in the 11th century out of mud walls. [3]
The term is a diminutive of city, meaning "little city", because it is a smaller part of the city of which it is the defensive core. In a fortification with bastions, the citadel is the strongest part of the system, sometimes well inside the outer walls and bastions, but often forming part of the outer wall for the sake of economy. It is ...
Khammam Fort is a fort in the city of Khammam, Telangana, India constructed by Musunuri Nayaks.It served as an impregnable citadel during various regimes of different dynasties, including the Musunuri Nayaks, Qutb Shahi’s and Asaf Jahis.
Fort Santiago was a citadel that was a part of the Intramuros, a walled city within Manila. The Igorots built forts made of stone walls that averaged several meters in width and about two to three times the width in height around 2000 BC. [31] The Muslim Filipinos of the south built strong fortresses called kota or moong to protect their ...
Daulatabad Fort, originally Deogiri Fort, is a historic fortified citadel located in Daulatabad village near Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar, Maharashtra, India.It was the capital of the Yadavas (9th century – 14th century CE), for a brief time the capital of the Delhi Sultanate (1327–1334), and later a secondary capital of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate (1499–1636).
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The reservoirs are cut through stone vertically, and are about 7 m (23 ft) deep and 79 m (259 ft) long. They skirt the city, while the citadel and bath are centrally located on raised ground. [23] There is also a large well with a stone-cut trough connecting it to a drain meant for conducting water to a storage tank. [23]