Bharuch
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Place details
- Region
- Gujarat
- Country
- India
- Population
- 169,007
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Bharuch
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- BrSwamitemple.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- BAPS Sri Svaminarayana Mandiram, Bharuch
- Settlement.nicknames
- Peanut City, City of Fertilizers, Chemical Capital of India
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Gujarat#India3
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- 1
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- India
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Gujarat
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Country
- India
- Population
- +158253
- Area
- +35.34
- Elevation
- +15
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Capital of
- Bharuch district
- Image
- BrSwamitemple.JPG
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- P1343
- Pauly–Wissowa
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Article
21 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- BCE era
- Maitraka era (470 CE–788 CE) and Rashtrakuta era (788 CE–942 CE)
- Nawabs of Bharuch and the Maratha Empire
- Geography and climate
- Economy, commerce and industry
- Trade
- Present industrial city
- Demographics
- Culture
- Notable people
- Places of interest
- Bharuch City
- Surrounding area
- Other places of interest
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Bharuch () is a city at the mouth of the Narmada River in Gujarat in the western part of India. Bharuch is the administrative headquarters of Bharuch District.
The city of Bharuch and its surroundings have been settled since times of antiquity. It was a ship building centre and sea port in the pre-compass coastal trading routes for trading with the Occident and the East, perhaps as far back as the days of earliest trade connections. The route made use of the regular and predictable monsoon winds or relied on galleys. Many goods from the Far East and Far West (the famed Spices and Silk trade) were shipped there during the annual monsoon winds, making it a terminus for several key land-sea trade routes. Bharuch was known to the Greeks, the Parthian Empire, in the Roman Empire, the Chinese, and in other Western and Eastern centres of civilisation through the end of the European Middle Ages and other the middle ages of the world.