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Sultan Nagar Fort

Qutb Shahi fort ruins, early 17th-century Hyderabad

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Sultan Nagar Fort, also known as Qila-yi Kohna (the Old Fort), are the ruined remains of an abandoned Qutb Shah era fort whose construction had started around 1620. The fort is located at a place now known as L. B. Nagar in Hyderabad, India.

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Accession of Sultan Muhammad Qutb Shah

1611

Construction underway

c. 1620

Death of Sultan Muhammad Qutb Shah

1625

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17.36° N, 78.55° E