Junnar
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Place details
- Locality
- Junnar
- Region
- Maharashtra
- Country
- India
- Population
- 25,997
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Junnar
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Junnar city.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Junnar city
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Maharashtra#India3
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Maharashtra, India
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Maharashtra
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Pune
- Settlement.unit_pref
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Maratha Empire
- Population
- +40000
- Area
- +2.65
- Elevation
- +689
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Official website
- www.junnar.in
- Image
- Junnar city.jpg
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Article
17 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Teak Forest
- Demographics
- Transport
- Junnar Tourism
- Shivneri Fort
- Jivdhan Fort
- Hadsar Fort
- Cave temples
- Saudagar Gumbaz
- Yavana Inscriptions
- Agritourism
- Leopard
- See also
- References
- External links
Junnar (Marathi pronunciation: [d͡ʒunːəɾ]) is a city in the Pune district of the Indian state of Maharashtra. The city has history dating back to the first millennium. The nearby fort of Shivneri was the birthplace of Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the founder of the Maratha Empire. Junnar was declared the first tourism taluka in Pune district by the government of Maharashtra on 9 January 2018.
==History== Junnar has been an important trading and political centre for the last two millennia. The town is on the trade route that links the ports of western India or more specifically of Konkan with Deccan interiors. The first mention of Junnar comes the Greco-Roman travellers from the first millennium, The Indo-Scythian Western Satraps ruled at Junnar during the 2nd century CE as shown by their cave inscriptions in the area of Junnar, at Manmodi Caves. "Yavana" Greeks also left donative inscriptions in the 2nd century CE at Lenyadri and Manmodi Caves. According to Damodar Kosambi, the real name of Junnar may have been Tagara. In his opinion, the name Junnar may be the contracted form of Jirnanagar (Old city).