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Makli, Thatta

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

Last modified May 04, 2021 04:47 PM — History

tags: extant remains, necropolis, UWHS

Thatta was the capital of three successive dynasties and later ruled by the Mughal emperors of Delhi. The expansive necropolis is thought to have grown around the fourteenth-century shrine of Muhammad Hussain Abro.

500 km

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/961231336

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
24.7649871327, 67.9004572556

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Representative Locations:
- OSM location of World Heritage Site of Makli Hills Monument (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

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Place type:
settlement, catacomb, cemetery, necropolis

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Makli, Thatta: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/961231336> [accessed: 09 April 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/961231336 |title=Places: 961231336 (Makli, Thatta) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=April 9, 2025 10:20 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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