Historical place profile

Makli, Thatta

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.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:961231336
Catalogue ID
pleiades:961231336
Place type
cemetery, settlement
Coordinates
24.764987, 67.900457
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

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.

Geographic evidence

The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.

Provenance: Pleiades

Source and reuse

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Research path

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