Name Bukkur was
derived by a pious Syed Muhammad Maki in the seventh century of Hijri. This
place is of limestone rock, oval in shape,800 yards long,300 wide and about
twenty-five feet in high. Bukkur must have been fortified and garrisoned at
a very early date, because sheikh Abu Turab, the Arab whose tomb near Gujo
in Taluka Mirpur Sakro District Thatta is reported to have distinguished
himself by taking it. The fort has figured prominently in the history of
Sindh. it had been held by Mughal emperors, kalhoras, Afghans, and Talpurs
in 1839 A.D, the Mirs of Khairpur handed it over to the British.
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Sukkur, (Sindh) Pakistan.
