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Metropolitan cities in India
- JodhpurRao Jodha, a Rajput chief of the Rathore clan, established the city in 1459. He conquered surrounding territory from the Delhi Sultanate to create what…
- JaipurOn the 18th of November 1727, Sawai Jai Singh II laid the cornerstone for a new capital city. He moved his seat from Amber to Jaipur to accommodate a growing…
- MaduraiThe 3rd century BCE marked the first documented mention of Madurai in Greek accounts. Megasthenes, the ambassador to the Mauryan Empire, referred to the city…
- RajkotIn 1612, Thakur Sahib Vibhoji Ajoji Jadeja established a settlement that would become Rajkot. He received the land as a jagir from his grandfather Jam Sataji…
- AgraThe Yamuna River flows past a city whose name remains a subject of linguistic debate. Some scholars point to the Hindi word agar, meaning salt pan, because…
- KozhikodeIn the first century of the Common Era, Roman ships sailed to a port called Tyndis on the Malabar Coast. Pliny the Elder recorded that Rome spent fifty…
- AhmedabadOn the 26th of February 1411, Sultan Ahmed Shah laid the foundation for a new walled city near the banks of the Sabarmati River.
- PuneA copper plate dated 937 CE bears the earliest known reference to this settlement, calling it Punya-vishaya. The word vishaya means land, while Punaka and…
- DelhiOne of the most persistent stories about Delhi begins with a king named Dhillu. He supposedly built a city at this location in 50 BCE and named it after…
- MumbaiMumbai has more billionaires than any other city in Asia. Seven islands once sat here, home to Marathi-speaking Koli fishermen who prayed to a goddess named…
- AurangabadIn 1610, an Ethiopian military leader named Malik Ambar established a new settlement called Khađkī on the site of modern Aurangabad.