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INDIAS HERITAGE
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Agra, Uttar Pradesh
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Jaipur, Rajasthan
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Mumbai, Maharashtra
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Udaipur, Rajasthan
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Detailed explanation-1: -Fatehpur Sikri is located in Agra District in the State of Uttar Pradesh in northern India. It was constructed southeast of an artificial lake, on the slopping levels of the outcrops of the Vindhyan hill ranges. Known as the “city of victory”, it was made capital by the Mughal emperor Akbar (r.
Detailed explanation-2: -Fatehpur Sikri, , a city predominantly in red sand-stone, situated at a distance of 37 kms from Agra, was built by the Mughal Emperor Jalal-ud-din Mohammad Akbar, in honour of the great Sufi saint Sheikh Salim Chisti; its magnificence and uniqueness offers a fine example of the emperor’s architectural finesse.
Detailed explanation-3: -He named the city Fatehabad, with Fateh, a word of Arabic origin in Persian, meaning “victorious.” It was later called Fatehpur Sikri. It is at Fatehpur Sikri that the legends of Akbar and his famed courtiers, the nine jewels or Navaratnas, were born.