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Banbhore

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Dec 19, 2025 01:43 PM — History
Banbhore is located 65 km east of Karachi. Its sequence of occupation stretches from the first century BC to the thirteenth century AD.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/91371094

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settlement, port

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The submission for consideration for UNESCO World Heritage Site status notes: "... the site’s surface remains represent the best preserved early Islamic urban form in South Asia and the region’s best preserved mediaeval port."


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Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Banbhore: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/91371094> [accessed: 08 May 2026] 

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