Old City of Hyderabad (Hyderabad)

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The Old City of Hyderabad is a walled city of Hyderabad, Telangana, India, located on the banks of the Musi River built by Qutb Shahi sultan Muhammed Quli Qutb Shah in 1591 AD.

There used to be a granite wall surrounding the old city. The wall was constructed during the 17th and 18th centuries, during the Qutb Shahi, Mughal and Asaf Jahi periods. The wall had thirteen gateways called darwazas and thirteen smaller entrances called khirkis.

The thirteen gates were:
Purana Pul Darwaza (surviving) at Purana Pul.
Dabeerpura Darwaza (surviving) at Dabirpura.
Chaderghat Darwaza at Chaderghat.
Yakutpura Darwaza at Yakutpura.
Aliabad Darwaza at Aliabad.
Champa Darwaza
Lal Darwaza
Gowlipura Darwaza
Fateh Darwaza
Doodhbowli Darwaza
Dilli Darwaza
Mir Jumla Darwaza
Afzal Darwaza, the last of the gates built in 1861 by Afzal-ud-Dawlah

Much of the wall was destroyed during the Great Musi Flood of 1908, and also demolished by the Government in the 1950's and 1960's. Today, only two gates still stand — the Purana Pul Darwaza and the Dabeerpura Darwaza, and nothing except a few portions remains of the wall.