So starting
from this weekend until the very end of this month, I will be posting about the
Guinness World’s Record.
1. WORLD
LONGEST FORT WALL
Built on a hilltop 1,100 m (3,600 ft)
above sea level on the Aravalli range, the fort of Kumbhalgarh has perimeter
walls that extend 36 km (22 mi), making it one of the longest walls
in the world. The frontal walls are fifteen feet thick. Kumbhalgarh has
seven fortified
gateways. There are over 360 temples within the fort, 300 ancient Jain and the rest Hindu. From the palace
top, it is possible to see kilometers into the Aravalli
Range. The sand dunes of the Thar
Desert can be seen from the fort walls.
Hill forts
of Rajasthan - the longest fort wall in the world recorded by Guinness World’s
Record. It’s a Mewar fortress on the westerly range of Aravalli Hills, in
the Rajsamand district near Udaipur of Rajasthan state in
western India. It is a World Heritage Site included in Hill
Forts of Rajasthan. Built during the course of the 15th century by Rana
Kumbha, Kumbhalgarh is also the birthplace of Maharana Pratap the great
king and warrior of Mewar. Occupied until the late 19th century, the fort
is now open to the public and is spectacularly lit for a few minutes each
evening. Kumbalgarh is situated 82 km northwest of Udaipur by
road. It is the most important fort in Mewar after Chittaurgarh
In 2013, at
the 37th session of the World Heritage Committee held in Phnom
Penh, Cambodia, Kumbhalgarh Fort, along with five other fort of Rajasthan,
was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site under the group Hill
Forts of Rajasthan.
With a wall
over 38 km long, the fort is among the largest wall complex in the world,
and the second largest fort in Rajasthan after Chittor Fort.
Kumbhalgarh in its current form was built and
ruled by Rana Kumbha and his dynasty who were Hindu Sisodia rajputs descendents. Kumbhalgarh in its present form was
developed by, and believed to have been designed by a famous architect of the
era Madan. Rana Kumbha's kingdom of Mewar stretched from Ranthambore to Gwalior and included large tracts of erstwhile Madhya
Pradesh as well as Rajasthan. Out of the 84 forts in his dominion, Rana Kumbha is
said to have designed 32 of them, of which Kumbhalgarh is the largest and most
elaborate.
Ahmed
Shah I of Gujarat attacked the fort in 1457, but found the
effort futile. There was a local belief then that the Banmata deity in the fort
protected it and hence he destroyed the temple. There were further attempts in
1458-59 and 1467 by Mahmud
Khalji, but it also proved futile. Akbar's general,
Shabhbaz Khan, is believed to have taken control of the fort in 1576. In 1818,
an armed band of Sanyasins formed a garrison to protect the fort, but was
convinced by Tod and the fort was taken over by the Marathas. There were additions made by Maharanas of Mewar, but the
original structure built by Maharana Kumbha remains. The residential buildings
and temples are well-preserved The fort is also known to be the birthplace
of Maha Rana Pratap.But it was recaptured by Maharana Pratap in 1585 in
the battle of Dewair’
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Credits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumbhalgarh
http://welcome2rajasthan.in/index.php/2016/06/11/hooded-by-the-great-wall-of-india/
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