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Delhi - India
Delhi is a town the second largest town of the country, industrial town, traffic node, cultural center with universities, theater, Muses, galleries and magnificent buildings from the Mogulzeit, in the union territory Delhi in India with 10,928,270 inhabitants in the real town and 17,476,068 in the agglomeration, to Mumbai. Delhi is the former capital of India, is India's capital new Delhi since 1931. Even if you indicate in many dictionaries of various publishing houses Delhi as a capital of India, this largely doesn't correspond to the facts, however.
Story of Delhi
According to the Indian epic poem Mahabharata founded the Pandawas 1200 V Chr .. what was confirmed also according to latest archeological researches the town as Indraprastha? You extended the town later and declared it the capital of its empire. The town had n Chr . up to the 4th century. Stock. Delhi was located in connection way and Claudius Ptolemäus important to the Maurya era at one, this one in the 2nd century n, Chr .. through this region came, mentioned the name "Dilli".
The origins get Delhi generally the modern one n . Chr on the foundation of Lal excrement in 736. led back by the Tomara-Rajputen. Delhi also is called "town of the seven towns" since ruins have to be inspected by seven former towns in it. However, it was founded provably more than seven towns on today's municipal area within the last 3,000 years.
The Rajputen prince Prithviraj Chauham III fell 1192. as the last Hindu king in a battle against the Muslims attacking again and again for long time already. Winning storm "Qutb Minar" dates set up the 1199 from this time. The Islamic power lasted until British colonial times. Sultanate of Delhi could the 1206 hold on exclaimed despite a partly disastrous politics until the invasion of the Moguln 1526.
A heyday experienced the town under the rule of the Tughluq until Timur Leng devastated the city of 1398 and killed over 100,000 inhabitants with its Mongol army. The Islamic dynasties followed Sayyid and Lodi as well as as of 1556 the Moguln the "red Fort" and the "Jami Masjids" date from whose time. The most famous Großmoguln were Akbar, builder of the new capital Fatehpur Sikri and Shah Jahan who had the monument Taj Mahal built.
The Persian king nadir appointed his troops to shah for Delhi on February 13th, 1739. He robbed the town and among other things also took the famous "Pfauenthron" which served shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as a seat until last along. Always the British East India company set up a branch of a trading organization in the town in the middle of the 18th century and in the following wars against the Hindu armies attacking of the south the brits beat themselves on the page of the Moguln which unhurtly came through the multiple sieges. Only the Afghan king Ahmed Schah Durani looted Delhi 1752 successfully.
British forces conquered the town on December 30th, 1803. The administrator employed by the brits left the Moguln title and private property. Insurgents brought the Englishmen down together with the bengali army and 1857 caused a bloodbath under them. They the town was reconquered by the brits four months later, these transferred, however, headquarters of their to 1911 to Kalkutta, today's Kolkata, King Georg V. from where back shifted again, to stop Muslims from the autonomy endeavors around which.
The modern new Delhi came the year of the laying of the foundation stone into being south of the historical town center as of 1911. The drawing-board town planned by the British architects Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker was opened in 1931 and is seat of all Indian government places certainly today.
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