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Line 3: {{Use dmy dates\|date=June 2023}} {{Infobox settlement \| name = ~~Sukkar~~Sukkur \| official_name = \| native_name = {{hlist\|{{lang\|sd\|{{Naskh\|سکر}}}}\|{{lang\|ur\|{{nq\|سکھر}}}}}} Line 71: }} '''Sukkur''' ({{~~Lang-~~Langx\|sd\|{{Naskh\|سکر}}}}; {{~~Lang-~~Langx\|ur\|{{nq\|سكھر}}}}) is a city in the [[Pakistan]]i province of [[Sindh]] along the western bank of the [[Indus River]], directly across from the historic city of [[Rohri]]. Sukkur is the [[List of cities in Sindh by population\|third largest city]] in [[Sindh]] after [[Karachi]] and [[Hyderabad, Sindh\|Hyderabad]], and [[List of most populous cities in Pakistan\|14th largest city of Pakistan]] by population.<ref name="Population city">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.tageo.com/index-e-pk-cities-PK.htm\|title=Pakistan City & Town Population List\|access-date=4 December 2021\|publisher=Tageo.com website}}</ref><ref name="citypopulation.de">{{cite web\|url=http://www.citypopulation.de/Pakistan-100T.html\|title=Pakistan: Provinces and Major Cities – Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information\|website=citypopulation.de\|access-date=4 December 2021}}</ref> The city was originally founded by the [[Rai dynasty]] of Sindh. The modern city was built in the 1840s.<ref>{{cite journal \|last1=Morris \|first1=Neil ~~MorrisNeil~~ \|title=Sukkur \|journal=Dictionary Plus Social Sciences \|date=21 April 2016 \|doi=10.1093/acref/9780191823534.001.0001/acref-9780191823534-e-1260 \|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191823534.001.0001/acref-9780191823534-e-1260 \|publisher=Oxford University Press \|language=en}}</ref> New Sukkur was established during the British era alongside the village of Sukkur. Sukkur's hill, along with the hill on the river island of [[Bukkur]], form what is sometimes considered the "Gate of Sindh".<ref>{{cite book\|last1=Burton\|first1=Richard\|title=Sindh and the Races That Inhabit the Valley of the Indus\|date=1851\|publisher=Asian Educational Services\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gO6pPmYjF5MC&q=sukkur+sindh&pg=PA9\|access-date=19 December 2017\|isbn=9788120607583}}</ref> == Etymology == Line 79: The region around Sukkur has been inhabited for millennia. The ruins of [[Lakhueen-jo-daro\|Lakhan-jo-daro]], located near an industrial park on the outskirts of Sukkur,<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Hyder\|first1=Ali\|title=Brief Description of Archaeological Sites and Monuments of Sindh \|url=https://www.academia.edu/11300512\|access-date=19 December 2017\|via=Academia.edu}}</ref> date from the [[Indus Valley civilisation#Mature Harappan\|Mature Harappan]] period of the [[Indus Valley civilisation\|Indus Valley Civilization]], between 2600 BCE and 1900 BCE covers more than 300 Hectares of area and is touted to be second largest city of the Indus Valley Civilization just 75 Kilometers away from another major city of [[Indus Valley Civilization]], [[Mohenjo-daro\|Mohenjo Daro]]<ref>{{cite web \|title=Collecting samples from a Lakhueen-jo-daro trial trench \|url=http://ancient.sindh.ws/hphs/15.htm \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080422174251/http://ancient.sindh.ws/hphs/15.htm\|archive-date=2008-04-22\|url-status=dead}}</ref> By the 12th Century [[Rohri]] and Sukkur had been incorporated in dominion of the [[Bhati]] Rajputs.<ref name=TK>{{Cite book\|last=Kothiyal\|first=Tanuja\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=be-7CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA56\|title=Nomadic Narratives: A History of Mobility and Identity in the Great Indian\|publisher=Cambridgre University Press\|year=2016\|isbn=9781107080317\|page=72}}</ref> [[File:Temple Sadh Belo.jpg\|thumb\|left\|Sukkur is home of the Hindu [[Sadh Belo]] shrine.]]