Kittur Fort, Military fortress in Karnataka, India.

Kittur Fort is a ruined fort in Kittur, Karnataka, the former capital of a minor principality and an archaeological site. It was built between 1650 and 1681 by Allappa Gowda Sardesai of the Desai dynasty. Its grounds hold the Maruti, Kalmeshwara, Dyamavva and Basavanna temples, the last a later Chalukyan monument now fully renovated, and the Nathapanthi matha stands in the police line area.

Queen Rani Chennamma led an armed resistance against British forces from this fort in 1824. This rebellion occurred more than 30 years before the major uprising of 1857.

The fort holds a Nathapanthi matha in the police line area, while the Maruti temple stands within the fort itself; Kalmeshwara, Dyamavva and Basavanna temples lie in the surrounding area. The Basavanna temple is a later Chalukyan monument, now completely renovated.

The Kittur Rani Chennamma memorial government museum, run by Karnataka's department of archaeology and museums, opened on 10 January 1967. It holds swords, a mail-coat, a shield, hero stones and inscriptions from Kittur and nearby villages. The fort itself lies in ruins, and the Nathapanthi matha area is off limits.

The Kittur Rani Chennamma memorial government museum opened on 10 January 1967, inaugurated by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and is run by the Karnataka state department of archaeology and museums. Its collection holds swords, a mail-coat and shield, engraved wooden doors and windows from the Kittur palace, hero stones and sculptures of Surya, Vishnu, Subrahmanya and Durga brought from villages around Kittur.