Golconda Fort

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Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh)

Golconda Fort is a one of the beautiful and famous forts of India. This was a mud fort and the name originates from the Telugu words "Golla Konda" means "Shepherd's Hill". The fort is famous for its acoustics, palaces, ingenious water supply system and the famous Fateh Rahben gun, one of the cannons used in the last siege of Golconda by Aurangzeb, to whom the fort ultimately fell. Golconda was originally a mud fort, which passed to the Bahmani dynasty and later to the Qutb Shahis, who held it from 1518 to 1687 A.D. The first three Qutb Shahi kings rebuilt Golconda, over a span of 62 years.

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