Kot Addu

Kot Addu's name preserves the memory of Addu Khan, a chief associated with the Mirani Baloch rulers of the Indus country. Local tradition attributes the town's foundation to him, as a son of one of the Ghazi Khans. This is a remembered attribution rather than a precisely dated foundation charter.

The same account places Kot Addu within a northern tract governed by Mirani chiefs. As their fortunes declined, Mahmud Gujjar succeeded to authority in this country and built the neighbouring fort of Mahmud Kot to support his position on the left bank of the Indus. The two places thus belonged to a landscape in which fortified settlements marked the claims of local ruling houses. Kot Addu's earlier identity was tied to these regional chiefs and their changing power.