Kamptee

Also known as Kamthi

Kamptee is a suburb of Nagpur city and a municipal council in Nagpur district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is part of the Nagpur metropolitan region development authority. It is the administrative center for Kamptee taluka. It is below the confluence of the Kanhan River with the rivers Pench and Kolar.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Kamptee
Settlement.other_name: Kamthi
Settlement.nickname: कामठी
Settlement.settlement_type: Suburban
Settlement.image_skyline: Garuda Square, Kamthi. - panoramio.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Garuda Square, Kamptee
Settlement.pushpin_map: India Maharashtra
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Maharashtra, India
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: State
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Maharashtra
Settlement.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Nagpur
Settlement.named_for: T Shaped ( Camp T )
Settlement.government_type: Municipality (नगर परिषद)
Settlement.governing_body: Kamptee Nagar Parishad
Settlement.unit_pref: Metric
Settlement.area_total_km2: 14.27

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Area: 4.27
Elevation: 269
Dialing code: 7109

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postal code: 441001

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==History== right|thumb|200px|Map of Nagpur district showing location of Kamptee. Kamptee was founded in 1821 when the British established a military cantonment on the banks of the Kanhan. Kamptee was previously named Camp-T for its shape. The town quickly became a center for trade, but trade dwindled with the arrival of the railway in the late 19th century. An Iron Age hoard of weapons was excavated by Major George Pearse of the Royal Artillery from the Wurreegaon barrow near Kamptee in the mid-nineteenth century. Dating to between the 7th and 1st centuries BCE, it was one of the first hoards from this period discovered in the Indian Sub-Continent and is now kept in the British Museum, London.