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This article details the history of Raigad district. Raigad District is a district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is located in the Konkan region. The Kulaba district was renamed after Raigad, the fort which was the former capital of the Maratha ruler Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. The fort is surrounded by dense forest in the interior ...
Raigad district (Marathi pronunciation: [ɾaːjɡəɖ]), previously Colaba district, is a district in the Konkan division of Maharashtra, India. [2] The headquarters of the district is Alibag . Other major cities in the district are Panvel , Karjat , Navi Mumbai , Khopoli , Shrivardhan and Mahad .
The areas with biggest industrial growth were the Pune metropolitan region and areas close to Mumbai, such as Thane district and Raigad district. [151] After the 1991 economic liberalization, Maharashtra began to attract foreign capital, particularly in the information technology and engineering industries.
Alibag, also known as Alibaug (Pronunciation: ), is a coastal city and a municipal council in Raigad district of Maharashtra, India.It is the headquarters of the Raigad district and is south of the city of Mumbai.
This constituency is located in the Raigad district. [1] It is a part of Raigad Lok Sabha constituency along with five other Vidhan Sabha constituencies namely, Dapoli and Guhagar (Ratnagiri district) and Pen , Alibag , Shrivardhan (Raigad district).
Fortress of Chaul Old Map of Chaul. Many foreign writers have mentioned Chaul. Ptolemy in his Geography of India calls the town Symullla or Timulla. [1] [2] The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea mentions that it was a market south of Kalliena (Calliana). [3]
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The earliest Marathi-only inscriptions are the ones issued during the Shilahara rule, including a c. 1012 CE stone inscription from Akshi taluka of Raigad district, and a 1060 or 1086 CE copper-plate inscription from Dive that records a land grant to a Brahmin. A 2-line 1118 CE Marathi inscription at Shravanabelagola records a grant by the ...