Paranda Fort is situated in

Paranda Paranda is a town with a municipal council in the Osmanabad district of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the headquarters town for the Paranda Tehsil. History The city is located around an ancient Paranda Fort and is also an area of m ...

, a small town in the Osmanabad district in the state of

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, India. It is protected monument by the Archaeological Survey Of India. The fort may have been constructed in the 15th century by

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in the early 1600s. Paranda has great historical value and finde mention in Honnati inscription of Baka 1045] (A.D. 1924) and also later a few of the Kalyan Chalukyan an Copper, copper plates. As well as in Yadava epigraphs, as Pallyanda Pratyandaka. The fort is attraction in this Paranda town and is known to have been built by Mahmud Gavan, the Prime Ministar of Muhammad Shah Bahmani 2. Paranda fort is a solid construction of mediaeval age. It's rampart walls being fortified by 26 strong rounded bastions, one of which tank the main entrance on the northern side. Further it has a protective maat or khandak around connected with the fort by ance wooden draw bridge Some of the bastions in strategic places are mounted with huge cannons which can aver be seen today. These were mostly cast by Dutch craftsmen and one of them bears the name Husain Arabs, an Arab engineer in the service of the Bijapur. In one of the store rooms there are a few more cannons of which one is quite huge and an which is inscribed "Sarkar Nabab Mir Nizam All Khan Nearly 300

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bolls are found stored in yut another rooms. Paranda fort is now a state protected monument under the Maharashtra Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites & Remains Act. 1960.

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