Ghazipur
| Ghazipur ग़ाज़ीपुर |
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| State : | Uttar Pradesh | ||
| District : | Ghazipur | ||
| Location : | 25 ° 35 ' N , 83 ° 36' E | ||
| Height : | 74 m | ||
| Residents : | 121,020 (2011) | ||
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Ghazipur ( Hindi : ग़ाज़ीपुर , Urdu : غازیپور; Ġāzīpur [ ˈɣaːziːpʊr ]) is a city in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh with about 120,000 inhabitants (2011 census).
The city is located on the north bank of the Ganges around 70 kilometers northeast of Varanasi in the east of Uttar Pradesh near the border with the neighboring state of Bihar . The city is the administrative seat of the district of the same name .
Ghazipur was founded around 1330 by a Muslim military leader named Masud, who had previously defeated the local Raja . The Sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq gave him the land of the defeated Raja and gave him the honorary title Ghāzī , which gave the newly founded city its name. The local Hindu tradition, on the other hand, derives the name from Gadhi, the father of the mythical seer Vishvamitra .
Lord Cornwallis , the British Governor General of India, died in Ghazipur in 1805 and is buried there. The Australian explorer Frederick Henry Litchfield was born in Ghazipur.
