Thatta

Thatta (in Urdu: ur ٹھٹہ; in Sindhi: sd ٺٽو) is a historical city of: 22000 inhabitants in the Province of Sind, with the Pakistan. It is located close to the lake Keenjhar, more the big lake of fresh water of the country. The monuments of Thatta are on the Liste of the world heritage of UNESCO since 1981. The city is often visited by tourists due in his vicinity of the big city of Karachi.

It was the capital of Low Sind at the 14th century, then controlled by the emperors moghols of Delhi as from 1592. She is forgotten little by little after the transfer of the province of Sind with Nâdir Shâh of Perse in 1739.

One finds there several monuments important: the Mosque Jama (as well as the mosques Shahjehani and Badshahi), built by Shâh Jahân of 1647 to 1649, the tombs of Jam Nizamuddin and the seven Soomro sisters (reigning of 1461 to 1509), several kings Tarkhan and of Moghols, as well as a Necropolis with thousands of tombs, in the Makli hills close to the city.

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