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Amreli is a city and a
municipality in
Amreli district of the
Saurashtra region in the state of
Gujarat,
India.
History
It is believed that during the year 534
AD, Amreli existed as a city place with name Anumanji. After that the
name was Amlik and then Amravati. The ancient Sanskrit name of Amreli
was Amarvalli. Initially Amreli was the part of Former
Gaekwad
of Baroda. During Gaekwad regime in 1886, the compulsory and free
education policy was adopted in Amreli for the first time. After
independence the district became the part of Bombay State and a
separate district in Gujarat State after the bifurcation of Bombay
State.
Geography
Amreli is located at
 21.62°
N 71.23° E.[1]
It has an average elevation of 128 metres
(419 feet).
Most part of the commercial area is called Tower Road stretching from
Tower to the Main Bus stand and further to Gopi Cinema.
Amreli is a small town in Kāthiāwār in
Gujarāt.
The Kāthiāwār, peninsula of western
India, is in Gujarāt State. The peninsula extends southwest into the
Arabian Sea and is bounded on the northwest by the Gulf of Kachchh and
on the southeast by the Gulf of Khambhāt. Area, about 60,000 km˛
(about 23,000 sq mi).
The peninsula of Kathiawar is named
after the Kathis who came to Saurashtra at the close of the fourteenth
century. Their origin is not fully known but it is possible that they
were driven southwards by the Muslim invaders. 'Khachar' and 'Chotila'
were the most important seats of the Kathis. Worshippers of the Sun,
they were essentially nomadic and had developed, among other pastoral
occupations, the art of horse-breeding. Successive waves of immigrants
from other parts of India have led to a superimposition of different
communities and cultures in Kathiawar. The powerful royal families,
which conquered Saurashtra later on established their rule over there.
Baroda was a former Indian state in
western India, 8176 square miles; it had four divisions, three in
Gujarat (Kadim, Baroda, and Navsari) and one in the Peninsula of
Kathiawar (Amreli, with Okhamandal). Once a part of the Mogul Empire;
in 18th century its princes belonged to Maratha Confederacy; c. 1721
it secured part of Gujarat; in 19th century subject to British
administrative control until 1881; became part of Bombay state 1948
and of Gujarat state 1960. More ...
Before 1948, there were some 260
Princely states in the Kāthiāwār Peninsula of western India. These
were consolidated in a single state named Saurashtra, in which the
former rulers would alternate as the constitutional head. Eventually,
as expected, Saurashtra became a part of the state of Gujarāt. |
