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The history of Shivpuri dates back to the Mughal period when the dense forests were used as hunting grounds by Mughal Emperors. Emperor Akbar is known to have captured herds of elephants. Many tigers also roamed the hills of the Vindhyas and were hunted by the royal Shikaris.

Shivpuri was formerly part of the Narwar Sarkar and was gifted to Kachawaha Rajputs before the administration was taken over by the Scindia’s of Gwalior. Maharaja Madhav Rao Scindia brought about the development of Shivpuri and built palaces here which today attract many tourists to the region. Shivpuri used to be the summer capital of the Scindia family.

According to common people Jagat Guru reached here on the way of visiting Kerala and considering pleasant place and called it Shrioni. After some ime it is known as a Seoni. And also called a Shiv Nagri.

The second reason behind this name is availability of Savan tree, which is found here in innumerable digits, which causes name Seoni.

The third reason of it is Allha married to the sonarani sister of indraman in 13th century & started living in Amodagarh near Seoni. There is clout of him near by forest area Seoni name is given due to queen sonarani, which turn to Seoni.

In 1388, Malik Nasir Khan, the Faruqi dynasty Sultan of Khandesh founded Burhanpur city at the behest of Shaikh Zainuddin and named it after a well known medieval sufi saint, Burhan-ud-Din. Burhanpur became the capital of the Khandesh sultanate. Later, Miran Adil Khan II (reigned 1457–1501), another sultan of this dynasty built a citadel and a number of palaces in Burhanpur. During his long reign, Burhanpur was transformed to a major centre for trade and textile production. In 1601, Mughal emperor Akbar annexed the Khandesh sultanate and Burhanpur became tha capital of Khandesh Subah of the Mughal Empire.

Also, It is a beautiful city with a lot of historical monuments existing in its expanse, primarily from the ruling times of Shah Jahan, the great Mughal emperor. A fact unaware about Burhanpur is that Mumtaz Mahal took her last breath in this city and her original grave still lies on the banks of Tapti River.

Burhanpur is also famous for Dargaah-e-Hakimi of Dawoodi Bohra community, incidentally the leader of the community also shares "Burhannuddin" in his name viz. Dr.Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin (TUS). Dargaah-e-Hakimi is one of the best Dawoodi Bohra mausoleum complexes in India.

Udvada was ruled by Rajput King Jadi Rana when many Parsis started fleeing Persia due to religious persecution and came to India. He allowed them conditional asylum to settle in the town of Sanjan. The community carried with them an urn with the ash from a sacred fire from Persia. Around the 14th century, a few centuries later, Sanjan was attacked by Muhammed bin Tughlaq of the Delhi Sultanate. The Parsis fled from Sanjan and took the sacred fire with them which they installed a few years later in Navsari. In the 18th century some of them decided to return back to Sanjan while some others preferred to stay in Udvada where by then the fire temple was built and consecrated in 1742.

Siddhapur finds a reference in the Skanda Puran as Sristhala. It derives its name from the great ruler of Gujarat, Siddhraj Jaisinh.

Junagadh is known for the rules of many dynasties including the Kshatrapas, Guptas, Mauryans, Chudasamas, Vilabhis, Babi Nawabs and Gujarat Sultans. It was the capital of the Junagadh State under the Muslim rulers of Babi Nawabs. The place also has Ashokan edicts from about 250 BC. The city was under the influence of four main religions – Jain, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu at different time intervals. All of that has left an indelible impression on the culture and architecture of this town.

Jamnagar in its present location was founded by Jam Raval in A.D. 1540 on the erstwhile 'Nagnah' port. Darbargadh, presently the area in the inner city, seems to be the original town founded by Jam Raval in 16th century. The foundation stone in one of the buildings here still bears the testimony and also the historic Darbargadh Palace, which was built on a high plane over the area between Nagmati and Rangmati rivers.

Champaner was established as the Chauhan Rajput capital in the 8th century. The town derives its name from the Champa tree or from Champaraja, founder of the town, a contemporary of King Vanraj Chavda of Anhilwada. The famous Muslim king of Gujarat, Muhammad Begada captured the fort in the late 15th century after a long siege against the Khichi Chauhan Rajputs. On a strategic trade route, it was besieged by Sultan Mahmud Begara, who succeded in taking it in 1484 AD. The fortress was the old capital of the local Rajputs who lost it in 1484 to Sultan Mahmud Beghara who renamed it Muhammadabad. It is said that it took 23 years to build his new city. Many bazaars, ton squares, royal gardens and water structures, including mosques were constructed during these years. I also became a major trading center producing fine silk, wove and dyed textile and sword manufacturing. Its decline started after attacks by the Mughal Emperor Humayun in 1535 AD. In his campaign in Gujarat, the Mughal Emperor Humayun personally led a small team that scaled the walls of the city using iron spikes and then let the rest of the army in through the main gate. After the death of Sultan Bahadur Shah in 1536 AD, the royal capital was again moved back to Ahmedabad. With the collapse of the Empire, Champaner passed to the Mughals, Marathas and British. In 1803 AD, when the British took the town, it was overgrown with jungles and had only 500 inhabitants.