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  2. Udaipur, Tripura - Wikipedia

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    Udaipur (/ˈuːdaɪˌpʊə/), formerly known as Rangamati, is the third biggest urban area in the Indian state of Tripura. The town was a capital of the state during the reign of the Manikya dynasty. It is famous for the Tripura Sundari temple also known as Tripureswari temple, one of the 51 Shakti Peethas. [3]

  3. List of Indian state and union territory name etymologies

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    The name Goa came to European languages via Portuguese, but its precise origin is unclear. A number of theories about its origin are centered around the Sanskrit word go (cow). [8] For example, the legend of Krishna names a mountain where he saved the cow; the mountain was named "gomāntaka", which later became Goa. Also, a port city named ...

  4. Bijoy sagar - Wikipedia

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    King Jhujaroofa of Tripura defeated the Mog dynasty and captured Rangamati and established his new capital at Udaipur in the middle of year 590 AD. His descendants changed their name to Manikya and constructed several temples in Udaipur such as Tripurasundari temple, Bhubaneswari temple , Gunabati Mandir, Shiva temple, Jagannath temple ...

  5. Udaipur - Wikipedia

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    Udaipur (Hindi: IPA: [ʊdəjpʊɾ], pronunciation ⓘ) (ISO 15919: Udayapura) is a city in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, about 415 km (258 mi) south of the state capital Jaipur. [4] [5] It serves as the administrative headquarters of Udaipur district. It is the historic capital of the kingdom of Mewar in the former Rajputana Agency.

  6. Gomati district - Wikipedia

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    Gomati district is a district of Tripura, India. This district was created in January 2012 when four new districts were created in Tripura, taking the number of districts in the state from four to eight. [2] Udaipur is its headquarters. The district is famous for its Mata Tripura Sundari Temple which is situated about 3 km away from Udaipur at ...

  7. History of Udaipur - Wikipedia

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    Maharaja Fateh Singh of Udaipur on royal barge, c. 1884-1930. Udaipur, India was founded in 1553, [1] by Maharana Udai Singh II [2] in the fertile circular Girwa Valley to the southwest of Nagda, on the Banas River. The city was established as the new capital of the Mewar kingdom.

  8. Tripura - Wikipedia

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    The kings had an estate in British India, known as Tippera district or Chakla Roshanbad (now the Comilla district of Bangladesh), [27] [28] in addition to the independent area known as Hill Tippera, roughly corresponding to the present-day Tripura state. [22] Udaipur, in the south of Tripura, was the capital of the kingdom, until the king ...

  9. Kokborok - Wikipedia

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    The 21st century began for Kókborok literature with the monumental work, the Anglo-Kókborok-Bengali Dictionary compiled by Binoy Deb Barma and published in 2002 A.D. by the Kókborok tei Hukumu Mission. This is the 2nd edition of his previous groundbreaking dictionary published in 1996 and is a trilingual dictionary.