Surat Castle

Surat Castle, or Surat Fort, is a 16th-century shape inside the metropolis Surat. The Ahmedabad king Sultan Mahmood-III ordered its construction to guard the metropolis from the common attacks that had devastated it. He entrusted the work to Safi Agha, a Turkish soldier who have been ennobled with the identify of Khudawand Khan. Though in context of the identity of Surat in medieval instances many views were expressed via unique historians, in all the historic narratives Surat has emerged as one of the foremost ports of international significance on the map of the world trade.

A Portuguese traveler named Barbosa throughout his go to to Gujarat in 1514 has defined Surat as a city of exceptional change in all lessons of merchandise, a totally important seaport yielding a big revenue to the king, and frequented by many ships from Malabar and many other ports. Shortly before Barbosa became in Gujarat, Surat is said to had been burnt by means of the Portuguese in 1512. Surat reportedly suffered from a wholly unprovoked, and piratical raid, in 1530, a 2^nd time by the Portuguese below the management of Antonio da Silvaria. Though the assailants had been hostile by way of a guard of 300 horses and ten thousand foot, however at the primary rate the defenders fled, and the town changed into taken and burnt.