Khambhat

Khambhat also called Cambay, is a town and the surrounding urban agglomeration in Khambhat Taluka, Anand district in the Indian kingdom of Gujarat. It changed into once an important buying and selling center, but its harbour steadily silted up, and the maritime exchange moved some other place. Khambhat lies on an alluvial plain on the north cease of the Gulf of Khambhat, cited for the intense upward push and fall of its tides, that can vary as plenty as thirty ft in the place of Khambhat.

Khambhat is understood for its halvasan, sutarfeni and kites patang, and for assets of oil and gas. Cambay become previously a flourishing town, the seat of an intensive exchange, and celebrated for its manufactures of silk, chintz and gold stuffs. The Arab tourist al-Mas'udi visited the town in 915 AD, describing it as a very a hit port; it turned into noted in 1293 by way of Marco Polo, who, calling it Cambaet, stated it as a hectic port. He mentions that the metropolis had its very own king.

Indigo and nice buckram were specific products of the area, however plenty cotton and leather-based become exported via Cambay. In the early 1340s, the Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta remarked on its superb architecture and cosmopolitan populace. Many right here are inside the agate enterprise, colored stone enterprise specifically ruby, and have stores which sell eatables and household products. Kite making and next income to surrounding massive towns is growing.