Ahmadabad(1)

Ahmadabad, the largest city of Gujarat, India, has almost four million people in the city, with over five million when the suburbs are included. It is located on the Sabarmati River, with the old city on the left bank. A bay window, its stone screen carved as a tree, in the Sidi Saiyyed Mosque is admired; also famous is the Satyagraha Ashram founded by Gandhi, and the first Swaminarayan temple.

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(1) Also transliterated as Ahmedabad. Formerly known as Ashapalli, Ashaval and Kamavati, notwithstanding the legend of its founding by Ahmed Shah, which post-dates these names.