Thane historical and oldest city of India
Short brief history of Thane city of India
Thane is a city in Maharashtra, India, at the head of the Thane Creek. Thane also known as 'the city of lakes' is the administrative headquarters of Thane district.
Throughout recorded history the city has left its mark under various
names. The earliest evidence of Thane appears in the works of the Greek
geographer, Ptolemy, who, in his writings ( 135 – 150 AD) refers to a
place called Chersonesus, which, according to researches, is the area
around Thane creek. It is also believed that this place was referred to
as 'Sri Sthanaka',named after a temple of Lord Ganapati. Later it was baptized to 'Cacabe de Tana' by the Portuguese and then 'Thana' by the British.
The city crops up again in the Middle Ages and slabs and copper plates
dating back to the period have been discovered in Thane. One of them,
dug up from the foundations of Thane Fort in 1787, dated 1078 AD, is
apparently a land grant from Arikesara Devaraja, sovereign of the city
of Tagara, wherein he address the inhabitants of a city called Sri
Sthanaka.
Friar Jordanus, a great traveler, who visited the Bombay city between
AD 1321 and 1324, describes it as being under a Muslim governor. He
leaves a detailed sketch of early converted Christians in Bombay and
refers to the martyrdom of four Christian priests in the region, more
than 200 years before the Portuguese ever set foot in India.
The Portuguese came to Thane about 1530 and ruled for over 200 years
till 1739. Work on the Thane Fort began in 1730. The Marathas, who
conquered Bassein and Thane in 1737 and 1739, held sway over the region
till 1784, when the British captured the Fort and ruled Thane. They made
it the headquarters of the district administration with a district
collector stationed in Thane.
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