Citadel of Gaur

 ruins, archaeological site, interesting place

A long time ago, this town was the capital of Hindu Kingdom called Lakhnauti. Around 1200, it was conquered by a Muslim named Bakhtiyar Khilji and fell under the Delhi Sultanate control. From that time, it had been controlled by sons of the sultans of Delhi until Fakhr ad-Din established a new independent Islamic kingdom in Bengal and moved the capital to Pandua in 1338. Around 1420, Gaur became the capital again called Jannatabad under the Ilyas Shah Dynasty and saw prosperity. This local dynasty of Bengal was conquered by Humayun of the Mughalid in 1537 and in the same year Sher Shah of the Sur Dynasty, that was struggling with the Mughal for supremacy, seized it. After the devastation by prevalence of the plague in 1575, it was incorporated into the Mughal Empire by the Great Emperor Akbar in 1576. In this area, many mosques built under the Ilyas Shah Dynasty between the late 15th century to the early 16th century remain.