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Khambhat, the Glossary

Khambhat, also known as Cambay, is a city and the surrounding urban agglomeration in Anand district in the Indian state of Gujarat.^[1]

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Cities and towns in Anand district
Gulf of Khambhat

Abyssinia

Abyssinia (also known as Abyssinie, Abissinia, Habessinien, or Al-Habash) was an ancient region in the Horn of Africa situated in the northern highlands of modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea.

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Agate

Agate is the banded variety of chalcedony, which comes in a wide variety of colors.

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Akbar

Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (–), popularly known as Akbar the Great, and also as Akbar I, was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605.

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Al-Masudi

al-Masʿūdī (full name, أبو الحسن علي بن الحسين بن علي المسعودي), –956, was a historian, geographer and traveler.

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Anand district

Anand District is an administrative district of Gujarat state in western India and whose popular nickname is Charotar.

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Anand is the administrative centre of Anand District in the state of Gujarat, India. It is administered by Anand Municipal Corporation. It is part of the region known as Charotar, consisting of Anand and Kheda districts. Anand is known as the "Milk Capital of India". It became famous for Amul dairy and its milk revolution by the Amul trinity: Tribhuvandas Patel, Verghese Kurien and H. Khambhat and Anand, Gujarat are Cities and towns in Anand district.

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Aqeeq

Aqeeq, akik or aqiq (العقيق) means quartz in Arabic, and agate in Turkish, however in the context of rings usually refers to a ring set with a chalcedony stone.

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Bazaar

A bazaar or souk is a marketplace consisting of multiple small stalls or shops, especially in the Middle East, the Balkans, North Africa and South Asia.

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Bharuch

Bharuch, formerly known as Bharutkutccha, is a city at the mouth of the river Narmada in Gujarat in western India. Khambhat and Bharuch are Gulf of Khambhat.

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Bombay Presidency

The Bombay Presidency or Bombay Province, also called Bombay and Sind (1843–1936), was an administrative subdivision (province) of British India and later the Dominion of India, with its capital in the city that came up over the seven islands of Bombay.

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Buckram

Buckram is a stiff cotton (occasionally linen or horse hair) cloth with a plain, usually loose, weave, produced in various weights similar to muslin and other plain weave fabrics.

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Cambay State

Khambhat state or Cambay state was a princely state in India during the British Raj. Khambhat and Cambay State are Gulf of Khambhat.

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Carnelian

Carnelian (also spelled cornelian) is a brownish-red mineral commonly used as a semiprecious stone.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Chintz

Chintz is a woodblock printed, painted, stained or glazed calico textile that originated in Golconda (present day Hyderabad, India) in the 16th century.

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Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps.

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Dharmaj

Dharmaj is a village in Petlad taluka, Anand district, Gujarat, India.

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Diamond

Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic.

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Duarte Barbosa

Duarte Barbosa (c. 14801 May 1521) was a Portuguese writer and officer from Portuguese India (between 1500 and 1516).

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Francis Xavier

Francis Xavier, SJ (born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta; Latin: Franciscus Xaverius; Basque: Frantzisko Xabierkoa; French: François Xavier; Spanish: Francisco Javier; Portuguese: Francisco Xavier; 7 April 15063 December 1552), venerated as Saint Francis Xavier, was born in Navarre, Spain Catholic missionary and saint who co-founded the Society of Jesus and, as a representative of the Portuguese Empire, led the first Christian mission to Japan.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.

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Gujarat

Gujarat is a state along the western coast of India.

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Gujarati language

Gujarati (label) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat and spoken predominantly by the Gujarati people.

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Gulf of Khambhat

The Gulf of Khambhat, also known as the Gulf of Cambay, is a bay on the Arabian Sea coast of India, bordering the state of Gujarat just north of Mumbai and Diu Island.

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Horn of Africa

The Horn of Africa (HoA), also known as the Somali Peninsula, is a large peninsula and geopolitical region in East Africa.

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Ibn Battuta

Abū Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abd Allāh Al-Lawātī (24 February 13041368/1369), commonly known as Ibn Battuta, was a Maghrebi traveller, explorer and scholar.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian Standard Time

Indian Standard Time (IST), sometimes also called India Standard Time, is the time zone observed throughout the Republic of India, with a time offset of UTC+05:30.

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Indigo dye

Indigo dye is an organic compound with a distinctive blue color.

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Indus Valley Civilisation

The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), also known as the Indus Civilisation, was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE.

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Ivory

Ivory is a hard, white material from the tusks (traditionally from elephants) and teeth of animals, that consists mainly of dentine, one of the physical structures of teeth and tusks.

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Jain temple

A Jain temple, Derasar (Gujarati: દેરાસર) or Basadi (Kannada: ಬಸದಿ) is the place of worship for Jains, the followers of Jainism.

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Jainism

Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.

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James Tod

Lieutenant-Colonel James Tod (20 March 1782 – 18 November 1835) was an officer of the British East India Company and an Oriental scholar.

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Jami Mosque, Khambhat

Jami Mosque is a mosque in Khambat, Gujarat, India, built in 1325.

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Khambatta

Khambatta is an Indian Parsi toponymic surname from Khambhat, Gujarat. Khambhat and Khambatta are Gulf of Khambhat.

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Kite

A kite is a tethered heavier-than-air or lighter-than-air craft with wing surfaces that react against the air to create lift and drag forces.

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List of districts in India

A district (zila), also known as revenue district is an administrative division of an Indian state or territory.

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Lothal

Lothal was one of the southernmost sites of the ancient Indus Valley civilisation, located in the Bhal region of the Indian state of Gujarat.

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Mahi River

The Mahi is a river in western India. Khambhat and Mahi River are Gulf of Khambhat.

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Marathi people

The Marathi people (Marathi: मराठी लोक, Marāṭhī lōk) or Marathis (Marathi: मराठी, Marāṭhī) are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who are native to Maharashtra in western India.

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Marco Polo

Marco Polo (8 January 1324) was a Venetian merchant, explorer and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295.

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Marino Sanuto the Elder

Marino Sanuto (or Sanudo) Torsello (c. 1270–1343) was a Venetian statesman and geographer.

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Mughal carpets

Mughal carpets (Moghul or Mogul carpets) were the handwoven floor coverings used in the Mughal Empire in their courts.

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Mughal Empire

The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia.

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Mughal Karkhanas

Mughal karkhanas (कारखाना, Karkhana, Karkana kārakhānā, Kar-kanyas, Qur khana, کارخانہ) were the manufacturing houses and workshops for craftsmen, established by the Mughals in their empire.

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Municipal council (India)

In India, a municipal council, also known as nagar palika or nagar parishad, is a self-governing Urban Local Body that administers a smaller urban areas than municipal corporations, with population of 100,000 or more.

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Murli Manohar Joshi

Murli Manohar Joshi (born 5 January 1934) is an Indian politician.

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Nadiad

Nadiad is a city in the state of Gujarat, India and the administrative centre of the Kheda district.

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National Institute of Ocean Technology

The National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) was established in November 1993 as an autonomous society under the Ministry of Earth Sciences in India.

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Niccolò de' Conti

Niccolò de' Conti (1395 – 1469) was a Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer.

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Peshwa

Peshwa was second highest office in the Maratha Confederacy, next in rank and prestige only to that of the Chhatrapati.

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Petlad

Petlad is a Town and a municipality "Taluka" in Anand district in the Gujarat state of India. Khambhat and Petlad are Cities and towns in Anand district.

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Postal Index Number

A Postal Index Number (PIN; sometimes redundantly a PIN code) refers to a six-digit code in the Indian postal code system used by India Post.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.

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Princely state

A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign entity of the British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, subject to a subsidiary alliance and the suzerainty or paramountcy of the British crown.

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Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy (Πτολεμαῖος,; Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science.

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Rajpipla

Rajpipla is a town and a municipality in the Narmada district in the Indian state of Gujarat.

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Ruby

Ruby is a pinkish red to blood-red colored gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum (aluminium oxide).

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Siddi

The Siddi, also known as the Sheedi, Sidi, or Siddhi, are an ethnic minority group inhabiting Pakistan and India.

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Silk

Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles.

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Sonar

Sonar (sound navigation and ranging or sonic navigation and ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigate, measure distances (ranging), communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of the water, such as other vessels.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khambhat

Also known as Khambat, Khambat, Gujarat, Stambhatirtha, UN/LOCODE:INCAM.

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Khambhat, the Glossary

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See also

Cities and towns in Anand district

Gulf of Khambhat

References