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About Jalgaon Jamod
Jalgaon Jamod is a town in Buldhana district of Indian state of Maharashtra.
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Hotel Joshi Lodge
Restaurant · Indian, Coffee Shop, Ice Cream, International
Durga Chowk, Jalgaon Jamod
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History
The name Jalgaon is a combination of two Marathi words, Jal and Gaon, that mean village of water. This name came because of heavy water resources around the town. The name 'Jalgaon Jamod' developed because of a smaller village called 'Jamod' near to Jalgaon. Mughal emperors gave the name 'Jamod' after 1630 AD, when Mughal emperor Shahjahan's wife Mumtaz Mahal was traveling with Shah Jahan's earlier military campaigns. She started facing pregnancy complications in Jamod which led to death in the city of Burhanpur near Jalgaon Jamod. After this incident Mughals started calling the village Ja-e-Maut (Place of Death). Ja-e-Maut was a Persian word later called Ja-maut, Ja-mod or Jamod by locals.
As per Ain-e-Akbari, it was a Pargana town in the Sarkar (then district) of Narnala of Berar Subah. "Raja Bhartuhari", King of Bhoj Nagri(Bhopal) had samadhi at Jalgaon Jamod.
In August 1905, it was part of what was then Akola District and was transferred to Buldhana district along with Khamgaon tehsil. The municipality of Jalgaon was established in 1931.
From the History section of Jalgaon Jamod on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Getting there and nearby towns
Akola Airport (AKD) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 67 km away.
- Nāndūra 25 km south, about 25 min by car
- Telhāra 32 km east, about 32 min by car
- Shegaon 33 km southeast, about 33 min by car
- Khāmgaon 38 km south, about 38 min by car
- Malkāpur 39 km southwest, about 39 min by car
- Shāhpur 38 km northwest, about 38 min by car
- Burhānpur 43 km northwest, about 43 min by car
- Nepānagar 47 km north, about 47 min by car
- Bālāpur 50 km southeast, about 50 min by car
- Akola 61 km southeast, about 1 h by car
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