the most Beautiful countries in the world. Kot Diji Fort, Pakistan

This is historical Fort from the period of Talpurs. It’s formally known as Fort Ahmadabad.

This fort located at a distance of22 twenty two kilometer from the khairpur district, in the Sindh province of Pakistan, about 25 miles east of the Indus River at the edge of the Nara-Rajisthan Desert. This fort was built during 1785 to 1795 by Miir Sohrab Khan. Almost (5) five kilometer and (12) twelve feet wide mud wall was built around the city. This wall had bastions throughout its length and a huge iron gate served as the city's only entrance.

Almost ninety to twenty canon guns were deployed on the fort during Talpurs' time. Kot Diji was provided an advantage over attacker marching from east side. It was the strongest of the 20. Talpur  forts was named after the Persian architect Ahmed who designed it. According to folklore, it took (30) thirty years to build. This fort is very practical forts constructed on a limestone hill with kiln/baked bricks. Bricks were used as locally available limestone rock was very brittle and would have shattered easily on impact with a cannonball. The hill is almost (110) one hundred ten feet high above which the walls of the fort rise another (30) thirty feet. It has (3) three strategically placed towers almost (50) fifty feet tall.

The fort is over 0.5 kilometer long. Its walls are segmented by almost 50 bastions, and its one kilometer and (800) eight hundred meter outer perimeter wall identically follows the double crescent/shaped contours of the hill it stands on. This allows the fort to save from attackers to three sides on the west front. On the east, where the entrance lies’ the fort is concern by three elephant-proof gates into three overlapping levels. So that the first two levels could be attack by the next level above them in the event of the lower level being overrun by the attacker. The first gate is not a prominent portal, rather an indirect entry so that the gate cannot be rammed on a charge. The walls and bastions have arrow slits in them’ allowing defenders to attack their attacker from two levels from the battlement on top and from within the wall.

The fort was built that time, when cannons had become common and its design and position reveals that: It includes a multitude of stations for cannons because it is positioned high on a narrow ridge. It was the ancestral home of royal house. During battle time the female members of the royal family would be shifted to Shahgarh Fort “formerly within the realm but since eighteen forty three after the conquest of the rest of Sindh, it was in the Thar and Jaisalmer desert in India). When the females moved into the comfort of palaces, it stood mainly as a decorated reminder of much violent times. After its whole history, Fort Kot Diji was never attacked in one time.