The Badaun Fort is a fort in the ancient city of
Badaun
Budaun (romanised: Badāʾūn or Badāyūn, ) is a medieval city and headquarters of Budaun district, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is located about a mile east of the Sot river, and 27 km north of the Ganges, in the Rohilkhand ...
which was built by
Ashoka The Great
Ashoka, also known as Asoka or Aśoka ( ; , ; – 232 BCE), and popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was List of Mauryan emperors, Emperor of Magadha from until #Death, his death in 232 BCE, and the third ruler from the Mauryan dynast ...
when he visited the region around 240 BCE and named it BudhhMau. The Historian Roz Khan Lodhi says that it was the first settlement of the modern existing city of Badaun.
Forts in Uttar Pradesh
Budaun
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