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Chitrakoot Dham is a city in the Chitrakoot district, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.It is the headquarters of the Chitrakoot district. Situated in the Bundelkhand region, it holds great cultural, historical, religious and archaeological importance and it is said that Rama, a major deity in Hinduism, spent 11 years of exile in Chitrakoot.
This is a list of cities and towns whose names were officially changed at one or more points in history. It does not include gradual changes in spelling that took place over long periods of time.
Chitrakoot may refer to these places in India: Chitrakoot Dham or Karwi, city in Uttar Pradesh, mentioned as the first forest of exile of Rama in the ancient Indian epic Ramayana. Chitrakoot division, a division of Uttar Pradesh, centred on the city; Chitrakoot district, a district of Uttar Pradesh, headquartered in the city; Chitrakoot Airport
East Punjab to Punjab (change effective from 26 January 1950; state later trifurcated into modern-day Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab under the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966; Chandigarh became a Union territory and the shared capital city of Punjab and Haryana) [1] [2] United Provinces to Uttar Pradesh (change effective from 24 January 1950)
An example is the change from English Calcutta to English Kolkata – the local Bengali name (কলকাতা Kôlkata) did not change. Such changes in English spelling may be in order to better reflect a more accurate phonetic transliteration of the local name, or may be for other reasons.
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Chitrakoot Dham; M. Manikpur, Chitrakoot; Mau, Chitrakoot; R. Rajapur, Uttar Pradesh This page was last edited on 8 February 2017, at 22:02 (UTC). Text is available ...
It borders the Chitrakoot district in Uttar Pradesh, whose headquarters Chitrakoot Dham is located nearby. The city lies in the historical Chitrakoot region, which is divided between the present-day Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. It is known for a number of temples and sites mentioned in Hindu scriptures.