Umerkot
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thumb|Umarkot Shiv Mandir-major pilgrimage centre in Sindh Umerkot (Urdu: ; Dhatki : عمرڪوٽ; Sindhi: عمرڪوٽ; IPA: [ʊmərkoːʈ], formerly known as Amarkot) is a city in the Sindh province of Pakistan. The Mughal emperor Akbar was born in Amarkot in 1542. The Hindu folk deities Pabuji and Ramdev married in Umerkot.
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- Umerkot عمرڪوٽ
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- Amarkot
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- City
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- Umarkot Fort view3.JPG
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- The 11th century Umarkot Fort
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- Sindh#Pakistan
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- Division
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- Mirpur Khas
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- District
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- Umerkot
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- Metropolitan commissioner
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thumb|Umarkot Shiv Mandir-major pilgrimage centre in Sindh Umerkot (Urdu: ; Dhatki : عمرڪوٽ; Sindhi: عمرڪوٽ; IPA: [ʊmərkoːʈ], formerly known as Amarkot) is a city in the Sindh province of Pakistan. The Mughal emperor Akbar was born in Amarkot in 1542. The Hindu folk deities Pabuji and Ramdev married in Umerkot.
The local language is Dhatki, one of the Rajasthani languages of the Indo-Aryan language family. It is most closely related to Marwari.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Umerkot” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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