Kotla, Nuh

Kotla
Kotla
	Town
	Kotla Kotla
	Coordinates: 27.99894°N 76.94483°E[1]
Country	India
State	Haryana
District	Nuh
Elevation [1]	200 m (700 ft)
Languages
• Official	Hindi
• Spoken	Urdu, Mewati
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)

Kotla is a historic village in Nuh district of Haryana, India. Located 7km south of Nuh city in the scenic Aravalli Hills, Kotla was a stronghold of the Khanzadas of Mewat and seat of power of the Khanzada ruler Bahadur Nahar Khan. Its historical importance came from its strategic position: in a narrow valley with only one pass, and protected on the east by the large Dahar lake, when the lake was filled with water, the only way in was through a narrow strip of land between the lake and the hills.[2]

Kotla is listed in the Ain-i-Akbari as a pargana under the sarkar of Tijara, producing a revenue of 1,552,196 dams for the imperial treasury and supplying a force of 700 infantry and 30 cavalry. It appears with the note "Has a brick fort on a hill on which there is a reservoir 4 kos in circumference."[3]

References

"Geonames.org. Kotla". Retrieved 24 January 2021.
"Kotla, Nuh". Nuh district website. Government of Haryana. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak; Jarrett, Henry Sullivan (translator) (1891). The Ain-i-Akbari. Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal. p. 193. Retrieved 24 January 2021.

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[Geonames-1] "Geonames.org. Kotla". Retrieved 24 January 2021.

[Nuh_website-2] "Kotla, Nuh". Nuh district website. Government of Haryana. Retrieved 24 January 2021.

[Ain-i-Akbari-3] Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak; Jarrett, Henry Sullivan (translator) (1891). The Ain-i-Akbari. Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal. p. 193. Retrieved 24 January 2021.