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Kirtipur

Kirtipur is an old Newar town on a ridge south-west of Kathmandu, Nepal. Prithvi Narayan Shah of Gorkha failed to take it in two assaults before capturing it after a long siege in the 1760s, punishing its defenders by cutting off their noses. Its fall opened the way to his conquest of the Kathmandu Valley in 1768.

Kirtipur
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Gorkha Kingdom

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Kirtipur. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/kirtipur
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