Jawhar, India

India

Jawhar, India carries 40 Bunkabop connections with 1620 other places across 13 topics, dominated by history. The name "Jawhar" draws the city into medieval Middle Eastern history through the 10th-century Fatimid general Jawhar al-Siqilli, whose campaigns tie this city's connections to Egypt, Syria, and Iraq. Within Maharashtra, Jawhar was the seat of a Koli princely state; the chieftain Khemirao Sarnaik once sought the king of Jawhar's support before revolting against the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.

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