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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Umarkot
Britannica 11thUMARKOT, a town in Sind, India, 7 m. from a station on the North-Western railway; pop. (1901), 4924. It is the headquarters of the Thar and Parkar district. The Mogul emperor Akbar was born here in 1542, when his father, Humayun, was fleeing to Afghanistan.
Vol. 27, pp. 574-574
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Thar And Parkar
Britannica 11th... y a bridge across the Indus at Kotri, and with the Rajputana system at Jodhpur. Umarkot, the administrative headquarters of the 1 Stephanus of Byzantium gives it in a list of cities as a " Syrian town on the Euphrates," quoting from Theopompus, without noting ...
Vol. 26, pp. 726-726
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