Ahmednagar

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Ahmednagar
Ahmednagar (India)
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State : IndiaIndia India
State : Maharashtra
District : Ahmednagar
Location : 19 ° 5 '  N , 74 ° 44'  E Coordinates: 19 ° 5 '  N , 74 ° 44'  E
Height : 647 m
Inhabitants :
-  Agglomeration :		 350,905 (2011)
379,867 (2011)
Website : amc.gov.in
Tomb of Minister Salabat Khan (late 16th century) in Ahmednagar
Tomb of Minister Salabat Khan
(late 16th century) in Ahmednagar

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Ahmednagar ( Marathi : अहमदनगर , Ahmadnagar ) is a city ( Municipal Corporation ) in the Indian state of Maharashtra .

It is located in the northwest highlands of Dekkan , about 200 kilometers east of Mumbai . Its population is around 350,000 (2011 census). Ahmednagar is the capital of the Ahmednagar District .

history

Ahmednagar was founded in 1494 by Ahmad Nizam Shah I on the site of the old city of Bhingar and named after him. The city gave the four years earlier by Ahmad from the Bahmanidenreich leached Sultanate Ahmednagar his name. As its capital, it was expanded into a fortress and residence. In the year 1600 an army of the Mughal ruler Akbar I conquered the city, despite bitter resistance from the regent Chand Bibi . The Nizam Shahi sultans then fled to Parenda, 120 kilometers south-east . After a brief restoration of power by the sultans, Ahmednagar finally fell to the Mughal Empire in 1633. In the 18th century, after the fall of the Mughal Empire, it came to Hyderabad . Domestic disputes prompted the commander of the fortress Ahmednagar to hand over the city to the rapidly expanding Marathas in 1759 .

In 1803 the British took under General Wellesley Ahmednagar in the course of the Second Marathas War , but had to cede it to the Marathas again in the same year. The city finally came into British possession in 1817. During the colonial period, the old fortress was a prison in which numerous leaders of the Indian independence movement were temporarily incarcerated, including Jawaharlal Nehru , Vallabhbhai Patel , Subhash Chandra Bose and Abul Kalam Azad . Internment camps for enemy aliens were set up here in both world wars . The warehouse in World War II was designated as a central warehouse and had a distribution function.

economy

The most important branches of industry are the vehicle (motorcycles, vehicle parts), electrotechnical (television, fax machines, generators), metal processing (iron, steel, copper), textile (cotton), chemical and pharmaceutical industries as well as the production of food and beverages .

Attractions

The most important sights in and near Ahmednagar include several architectural monuments, some of which have survived as ruins, which were built under Muslim rule, including the fortress begun in the late 15th century, the tomb of Minister Salabat Khan - often mistaken for the tomb of Chand Bibi - , the mausoleum of the city's founder, Ahmad Nizam Shah, the dilapidated Bagh Rauza palace (all from the 16th century) and the inconspicuous memorial building from the early 18th century, in which the body of the last important Mughal ruler Aurangzeb is close to be transferred to his final resting place Aurangabad has been prepared.

sons and daughters of the town

See also

Web links

Commons : Ahmednagar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Census of India 2011: Provisional Population Totals. Cities having population 1 lakh and above. (PDF; 154 kB)
  2. ^ Census of India 2011: Provisional Population Totals. Urban Agglomerations / Cities having population 1 lakh and above. (PDF; 141 kB)