Junagadh
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Junagadh ( Gujarati: જુનાગઢ, Junagadh, before 1947 also called Sorath ) is a city in the Indian state of Gujarat, with approximately 320,000 inhabitants ( 2011 census ). It is the administrative seat of the district of Junagadh.
Location
Junagadh is located at the foot of the Girnar mountains on the peninsula of Kathiawar about 780 kilometers by road north-west of Mumbai. Up to Ahmedabad, capital of Gujarat there are about 320 km in a north-easterly direction. The city is situated at an average altitude of 107 meters above sea level. inst; the Arabian Sea is about 80 kilometers away.
History
Its history goes back to the 3rd century BC, from the period are also parts of the still preserved forts Uparkot and a rock inscription Emperor Ashoka. Then Junagadh belonged to the dominion of the Sakas and the Guptas. In the 9th and 10th centuries the Chudasamas, possibly a Turkish -born Rajput clan, men were over large parts of Gujarat. In the 11-12. Century the Solanki dynasty ruled over the city, which was after the Islamic conquest of Gujarat ( 1299 ) for the Sultanate of Gujarat, which went down as part of the expansion of the Mughal Empire.
In the 16th century the Portuguese conquered parts of the coast and the island of Diu; their successors were the British, but little attended to Gujarat, but the rule of leaving over the province of a variety of local rulers. The place was until 1947 the capital of the princely state of Junagadh Muslim ( Sorath ). At independence of British India and its division into the modern states of India and Pakistan, the Nawab for the accession of his state to Pakistan decided. India recognized the decision of the Nawab with reference to the majority Hindu population Junagadhs not. In a referendum in February 1948, the population of the former State of Junagadh decided by a large majority of belonging to India.