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Trimbakeshwar Temple, Nashik

Nashik district, also known as Nasik district, is a district in Maharashtra state of central India. The city of Nashik is the administrative headquarters of the district.

1 Geography
- 1.1 Climate
2 Demography
3 Administration
- 3.1 Subdivisions and talukas
4 History
5 Places of interest
6 External links
7 References

[edit] Geography

Nashik district has an area of 15,530 square kilometres. It is bounded by Dhule district to the north, Jalgaon district to the east, Aurangabad district to the southeast, Ahmadnagar District to the south, Thane district to the southwest, Valsad and Navsari districts of Gujarat to the west, and The Dangs district to the northwest.

The Western Ghats or Sahyadri range stretches from north to south across the western portion of the district. With the exception of the westernmost few villages, the western portion is hilly, and intersected by ravines, and only the simplest kind of cultivation is possible. The western slope of the Ghats is drained by several rivers, including the Daman Ganga River, which drain westwards to the Arabian Sea.

The larger eastern portion of the district, which lies on the Deccan Plateau, is open, fertile, and well cultivated. The Chander Range, which runs east and west, forms the chief divide of the plateau region. The Godavari River originates in the district and drains east towards the Bay of Bengal, and all the streams to the south of the Chander Range, including the Kadwa and Darna, are tributaries of the Godavari. To the north of the Chander Range, the Girna River and its tributary the Mosam flow westward through fertile valleys into the Tapti River.

[edit] Climate

Extremes: max 42.4 °C (108.3 °F) on May 12, 1960, at Nasik. The lowest, also at Nasik, was 0.6 °C (33.1 ºF) on January 7, 1945.[1]

[edit] Demography

Population (2001) - 4,993,796

The district is 38.80% urban as of 2001.[2]

[edit] Administration

[edit] Subdivisions and talukas

Nashik sub-division
- Nashik
- Igatpuri
- Dindori
- Peint
- Trimbakeshwar
- Nashik-College Road

Malegaon sub-division

Niphad sub-division
- Niphad
- Sinnar
- Yeola

Kalwan sub-division
- Kalwan
- Satana
- Surgana
- Deola

[edit] History

In the 18th century, the present-day Nashik district was part of the Maratha Confederacy, within the territory controlled directly by the Maratha Peshwa. The district contains several old hill forts, the scenes of many engagements during the Anglo-Maratha wars. The district became British territory in 1818 on the overthrow of the Peshwa. The present-day district was initially divided between Kandesh and Ahmadnagar districts of Bombay Presidency, a province of British India. Nashik district was created in 1869. The population in 1901 was 816,504, showing a decrease of 3% in the decade 1891-1901. The principal crops were millet, wheat, pulse, oil-seeds, cotton and sugar cane. There were also some vineyards, and much garden cultivation. Yeola was an important centre for weaving silk and cotton goods. There were flour-mills at Malegaon, railway workshops at Igatpuri, and cantonments at Deolali and Malegaon. At Sharanpur was a Christian village, with an orphanage of the Church Missionary Society, founded in 1854. In 1861 the main northeast line of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway was completed across the district, and in 1878 a chord line was completed between Manmad, on the northeast line in Nashik district, and Dhond, on the southeast line in Pune district.