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About Sambhal
Sambhal (pronounced sə̃bʰəl) is a city located in the Sambhal district of Uttar Pradesh, India. The city lies approximately 158 km (98 mi) east of the national capital New Delhi and 355 km (220 mi) north-west of the state capital Lucknow. It also falls within the Rohilkhand region in the Moradabad division of the state, being approximately 32 km (20 miles) from the city of Moradabad.
From the Wikipedia article Sambhal (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History
Sambhal is identified as Shambhala, a village which is mentioned as the birthplace of Kalki, the tenth and last incarnation of Vishnu, in the Mahabharata and the Hindu Puranas such as the Skanda Purana, Bhavishya Purana and later Kalki Purana (the city is also home to a "Shri Kalki Vishnu Mandir"). This was borrowed into the Buddhist mythology of Tibetan Buddhism where it is described as a mythological kingdom and a pure land beyond the Himalayas from where the future Maitreya will emerge. According to Ibn Battuta, Toghon Temür the last Yuan dynasty emperor of China had sent an embassy to the Sultan of Delhi Muhammad bin Tughluq, requesting permission to rebuild a Buddhist temple at Sambhal, which at the time attracted pilgrims from Tibet.
Sambhal has been an urban center for hundreds of years and was a prominent town during the medieval period. Two legendary battles between Prithviraj Chauhan and Ghazi Saiyyad Salar Masud are claimed to have taken place here. At the time under local rulers, in the 13th and 14th-centuries it would go on to become a part of the Delhi Sultanate, first under Qutb ud-Din Aibak and later under Firuz Shah Tughlaq.
From the History section of Sambhal on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Map of Sambhal
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Getting there and nearby towns
Bareilly Air Force Station (BEK) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 88 km away.
- Sirsi 9 km northeast, about 9 min by car
- Narauli 18 km southeast, about 18 min by car
- Bahjoi 22 km south, about 22 min by car
- Bilāri 23 km east, about 23 min by car
- Kundarkhi 24 km northeast, about 24 min by car
- Chanduasi 26 km southeast, about 26 min by car
- Gawān 28 km southwest, about 28 min by car
- Hasanpur 32 km northwest, about 32 min by car
- Islāmnagar 32 km southeast, about 32 min by car
- Morādābād 35 km northeast, about 35 min by car
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Sources and licences
- GeoNames (CC BY 4.0): population, coordinates, regions and time zone
- OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0): places, airports, map data
- Wikidata (CC0 1.0): elevation, founding date, time zone, website
- Wikimedia Commons (see each image): photos
- Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): overview and history text
Photo credits
- Sambhal Jama Masjid wash drawing, Thomas Daniell / William Daniell, Public domain
- Madrasa Sirajul Uloom Hilali Sarai Sambhal, Ahmad sadan 786, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Madrasa Sirajul Uloom Hilali Sarai Sambhal in 2013, Ahmad sadan 786, CC BY-SA 4.0
- WP 001957, Ahmad Zushan, CC BY-SA 3.0
- IMG my Danish, Danish-pasha1, CC BY-SA 4.0
- ISS046-E-34481 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS018-E-34808 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS046-E-34483 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS046-E-34486 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS046-E-34485 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS046-E-34484 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS046-E-34482 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
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