Khandesh

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Khandesh is a region in the northern Deccan of India that has been politically organized in various forms over time:

14th century to 1600: Khandesh (Sultanate)
1601 to 1817 as Suba (province) of the Mughal Empire: Suba Khandesh
1817 to 1906 or 1961: as the Khandesh district

Today the region is divided into the following districts:

Burhanpur District , Madhya Pradesh
Dhule District , Maharashtra
Jalgaon District , Maharashtra
Nandurgar District , Maharashtra
Dangs , Gujarat

A regional dialect of Gujarati with numerous loanwords is called Khandeshi (ISO 639-3: khd)