Panipat
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| State : | Haryana | ||
| District : | Panipat | ||
| Location : | 29 ° 23 ' N , 76 ° 58' E | ||
| Height : | 239 m | ||
| Residents : | 623,571 (2011) | ||
| Website : | mcpanipat.com | ||
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Panipat ( Hindi : पानीपत , Pānīpat , ) is an Indian city in the state of Haryana , about 90 kilometers north of Delhi .
The city had 294,292 inhabitants within the boundaries of the former Municipal Council (2011 census). As of March 17, 2010, Panipat has been a municipal corporation . Their population was 623,571.
Panipat is the administrative seat of the district of the same name . Panipat is 16 kilometers west of the Yamuna , on the western channel of this river. Panipat, an industrial town with a refinery and a large fertilizer factory, is also known for its hand-woven fabrics.
history
According to legend, Panipat was founded as Paneprastha by the Pandavas of the Indian Mahabharata epic.
Panipat is located on the important thoroughfare from Delhi to the northwest, which - in the opposite direction - has repeatedly served as an incursion route to northern India for invaders from Persia and Central Asia . Punjab , which is only a few hundred kilometers away, mostly played the role of a deployment base for these invasions. In order to ward off such incursions, the rulers of Delhi were repeatedly forced to move with their troops to the Panipat area. So it is not surprising that in the semi-desert, largely flat and unimpressive landscape around Panipat, three battles that were enormously important for Indian history were fought.
On April 20, 1526, Babur , Timur Lenk's great-grandson , who came from the Ferghana Valley in Central Asia , defeated the last Sultan of Delhi in the First Battle of Panipat , thereby establishing the Mughal Empire . His grandson Akbar I defeated on November 5, 1556 the Hindu - usurper Hemu in the Second Battle of Panipat and thus consolidated the Mughal empire final. On January 14, 1761, the Marathas suffered a devastating defeat against the Afghan ruler Ahmad Shah Durrani in the Third Battle of Panipat . This defeat, in turn, significantly favored the rise of the British to the supremacy of India.
climate
The climate in Panipat is known as the local steppe climate . Most of the rainfall occurs in the monsoon months of July, August and September. The average annual precipitation is 672 mm. The annual mean temperature is 24.6 ° C.
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Personalities
- Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914–1987), film director, screenwriter and journalist
Web links
- mcpanipat.com (Website of the Municipal Corporation Panipat)
Individual evidence
- ^ Directorate of Urban Local Bodies Haryana: Municipal Corporation Panipat
- ↑ a b Directorate of Urban Local Bodies Haryana: Municipal Corporation Panipat ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
