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Bharuch was known as Bharutkatccha in ancient times. [9]It was known as Barygaza (Ancient Greek: Βαρύγαζα) [10] (meaning "deep-treasure"), Bargosa [11] etc. for the Greek, and later the Romans adopted the Greek name of this port in Latin as Barigaza in the Latin name of this city.
Bharuch (formerly commonly known as Broach) in India, is a district in the southern part of the Kathiawar peninsula on the west coast of state of Gujarat with a size and population comparable to that of Greater Boston. Bharuch derives its name from the famous Hindu sage Bhrigu. A historical name for Bharuch is 'Bhrigukachchha'.
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Their women are not secluded like other Moors, but go about the city in the day time, attending to their business with their faces uncovered as in other parts. Arabic sources speak of the warm reception of the significant immigration of Hadhrami sāda (descendants of Muhammed ) who settled in Surat during the Gujarat Sultanate .
Khambhat eclipsed Bharuch as Gujarat's most important trade port. Gujarat's relations with Egypt , which was then the premier Arab power in the Middle East, remained friendly over the next century and the Egyptian scholar, Badruddin-ad-Damamimi , spent several years in Gujarat in the shade of the Sultan before proceeding to the Bahmani ...
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