Agra Fort - Popular Culture

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  • The Agra Fort won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2004. India Post issued a stamp to commemorate this event
  • The Agra Fort plays a key role in the Sherlock Holmes mystery The Sign of the Four, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
  • The Agra Fort was featured in the music video for Habibi Da, a hit song of Egyptian pop star Hisham Abbas.
  • Shivaji came to Agra in 1666 as per the "Purandar Treaty" entered into with Mirza Raje Jaisingh to met Aurangzeb in the Diwan-i-Khas. In the audience he was deliberately placed behind men of lower rank, Insulted he stormed out of the imperial audience and was confined to Jai Sing's quarters on 12 May 1666.
  • In the second expansion pack for the videogame Age of Empires 3, the Asian Dynasties, Agra fort is one of five wonders for the Indian civilization.
  • In the expansion pack for the videogame Rise of Nations, Thrones & Patriots, Agra Fort is one of three new additional wonders, which can be built as a fortress.

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