Thatta | |
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City | |
| ٺٽو ٹھٹہ | |
 Clockwise from top: View of the Makli Necropolis, Tomb of Isa Khan Hussain at the necropolis, exterior and interior views of the Shah Jahan Mosque | |
| Nickname: The City of Silence | |
  Thatta Location in Sindh, Pakistan  Thatta Thatta (Pakistan) | |
| Coordinates: 24°44′46″N 67°55′28″E / 24.74611°N 67.92444°E | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Province | Sindh |
| District | Thatta District |
| Population | |
| • Total | 220,000 |
| Time zone | UTC+5 (PKT) |
| Highways |  N-5 |
Thatta (Sindhi: ٺٽو, IPA: [ʈɦəʈːoː]; Urdu: ٹھٹہ, IPA: [ʈɦəʈːɑː]) is a city in the Pakistani province of Sindh. Thatta was the medieval capital of Sindh, and served as the seat of power for three successive dynasties. Its construction was ordered by Jam Nizamuddin II in 1495. Thatta's historic significance has yielded several monuments in and around the city. Thatta's Makli Necropolis, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is site of one of the world's largest cemeteries and has numerous monumental tombs built between the 14th and 18th centuries designed in a syncretic funerary style characteristic of lower Sindh. The city's 17th century Shah Jahan Mosque is richly embellished with decorative tiles, and is considered to have the most elaborate display of tile work in the South Asia.[1][2][3]
- ^ "Shah Jahan Mosque, Thatta". UNESCO. Archived from the original on 3 October 2018. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
- ^ Khazeni, Arash (2014). Sky Blue Stone: The Turquoise Trade in World History. Univ of California Press. ISBN 9780520279070. Archived from the original on 30 April 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
- ^ Rajani, Shayan (July 2020). "Competing for Distinction: Lineage and Individual Recognition in Eighteenth-Century Sindh". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 30 (3): 397–416. doi:10.1017/S1356186320000061. ISSN 1356-1863.