Late Middle Ages · South Asia · Politics
1311
Alauddin Khalji builds Siri Fort in Delhi
1311
Shaken by the Mongol siege of 1303, the sultan raised an entire new fortified city beside the old qutb complex, garrisoned by the largest standing army India had yet seen. Siri's markets operated under state-fixed prices, its grain stores could feed a siege for years. It was Delhi remade as a war machine.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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