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Bareilly is a city in Bareilly district in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Located on the Ramganga, it is the capital of Bareilly division and the geographical region of Rohilkhand. The city is north of the state capital, Lucknow, and east of the national capital, New Delhi. Bareilly is the fourth city in Uttar Pradesh with compressed natural gas (CNG) filling stations (after Lucknow, Kanpur and Agra). It is the seventh-largest metropolis in Uttar Pradesh and the 50th-largest city in India. Bareilly also figured amongst the PM Narendra Modi's ambitious 100 Smart City list in India.
The city is also known by the name Nath Nagri (known for the four Shiva temples located in four corners of the region - Dhopeshwar Nath, Madni Nath, Alakha Nath and Trivati Nath), Ala Hazrat,Shah Sharafat Miyan and Khankahe Niyazia (derived the famous Muslim Mausoleum), Zari nagari and historically as Sanjashya (where the Buddha descended from Tushita to earth). The city is a centre for furniture manufacturing and trade in cotton, cereal and sugar. Its status grew with its inclusion in the " counter magnets" list of the National Capital Region (NCR), a list also including Hissar, Patiala, Kota and Gwalior. The city is also known as Bans-Bareilly. Although Bareilly is a production centre for cane (bans) furniture, "Bans Bareilly" is not derived from the bans market; it was named for two princes: Bansaldev and Baraldev, sons of Jagat Singh Katehriya, who founded the city in 1537. Bareilly's 2011 population was 898,167.
Bareilly usually refers to the Bareilly City, a prominent city in Uttar Pradesh, India.
It may also mean any of the following:
- History of Bareilly
- Bareilly district, India.
- Bareilly division, India.
- Bareilly (Lok Sabha constituency)
- Breilly, a commune in Picardie, France.
- Barelvi – A Sunni-Sufi movement founded in Bareilly.
- Raebareli – another city in Uttar Pradesh India.
Bareilly should not be confused with Rai Bareily the constituency represented by Sonia Gandhi in the Lok Sabha, which too is a constituency from Uttar Pradesh'' Bareilly Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India.
Bareilly Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Bareilly district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Bareilly (Lok Sabha constituency). First election in this assembly constituency was held in 2012 after the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" was passed and the constituency was formed in 2008. The constituency is assigned identification number 124.
Usage examples of "bareilly".
Khan Bahadoor Khan ruled at Bareilly, and his force was not to be despised.
The plan of the commander-in-chief was now to scour the borders of the province with two columns, which, setting out in opposite directions, should meet at Bareilly, the capital where two of the Delhi princes had taken shelter with Bahadoor Khan.
At the limit of your range of vision you will see three cities: Bareilly, Kashipur, and Moradabad.
He was told that there had been two trains at the Bareilly platform and they had been directed to the wrong one.