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About Giddarbāha
Giddarbaha is a town and a municipal council in Muktsar district, in the Indian state of Punjab. It is 19 kilometres (12 mi) from the city of Malout, 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the city of Bathinda and 40 kilometres (25 mi) from the city of Muktsar. It lies on NH-7, which connects Fazilka (Punjab) to Mana (Uttarakhand) in India.
From the Wikipedia article Giddarbaha (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History
Giddarbaha in its earliest stage was known as Pepali (Punjabi: ਪਿੱਪਲੀ, romanized: Pippalī) named after an old pipal tree. It was a very happy and small village with limited number of people. According to local tradition, when Shri Guru Gobind Singh ji visited Pepali, he saw ladies of the village disturbed by a jackal (Punjabi: ਗਿੱਦੜ, romanized: giddaṛ) when they went to fetch water from the well. He asked the villagers about this and they told him that everybody in this village was married except the jackal. After knowing the problem, Guruji arranged the marriage of jackal to the pipal tree. From there that village was renamed by the locals to Giddar vyahya (Punjabi: ਗਿੱਦੜ ਵਿਆਹਿਆ, romanized: Giddaṛ viāhiā, lit. 'the jackal is married').
Giddarbaha is relatively more literate than other districts of Punjab and famous for its snuff factories. It took the shape of a town from the small village and when the British reached here they mispronounced the town name as Giddarbaha. They planned a new walled city in 1909 with six gates and carved the name on the gates as Giddarbaha.
From the History section of Giddarbaha on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Map of Giddarbāha
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Getting there and nearby towns
Bhisiana Air Force Station (BUP) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 12 km away.
- Bhisiyāna 14 km northeast, about 14 min by car
- Malout 18 km west, about 18 min by car
- Sangat Kalān 21 km southeast, about 21 min by car
- Bathinda 26 km east, about 26 min by car
- Mandi Dabwāli 26 km south, about 26 min by car
- Dabwāli 29 km south, about 29 min by car
- Abohar 46 km west, about 46 min by car
- Sri Ganganagar 82 km west, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Sirsa 82 km southeast, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Barnāla 87 km east, about 1 h 30 min by car
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