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Thane Creek, previously Thana Creek, is an estuary of the Arabian Sea and one of the two main distributaries of the Ulhas River, in Konkan division of Maharashtra, India. [2] The Ulhas splits at the northeast corner of Salsette island into its two main distributaries, the other one being the Vasai Creek , both of which empty into the Arabian Sea.
Trans Thane Creek, also popularly called TTC, is a creek running between Thane and Navi Mumbai. It is popularly known as Thane- Belapur Road. It is a huge industrial area near Mumbai. The nearest hill stations are Matheran and Karjat. Systum Aditya bhai nusti ghai aana idli sambar malai IDE geets khup banai
Thane district (Pronunciation: , previously named Taana or Thana) is a district in the Konkan Division of Maharashtra, India.At the 2011 Census it was the most populated district in the country, with 11,060,148 inhabitants; [1] however, in August 2014 the district was split into two with the creation of a new Palghar district, leaving the reduced Thane district with a 2011 census population of ...
The name Thane has been variously Romanised as Tana, [3] Thana, [4] Thâṇâ, [5] and Thame. [6] Ibn Battuta and Abulfeda knew it as Kukin Tana ; Duarte Barbosa as Tana Mayambu . [ 7 ] Before 1996 , the city was called "Thana", the British spelling of the city, until it was replaced with the more-local name.
Salsette Island (Portuguese: Salsete, Konkani: साष्टी, romanized: sāṣṭī, Sashti) is an island in Konkan division of the state of Maharashtra, along India's west coast. Administratively known as the Mumbai Suburban district , Mira Bhayander and a portion of Thana (Thane) lie on it; making it very populous and one of the most ...
Mumbai Harbour (also English; Bombay Harbour or Front Bay, Marathi Mumba'ī bandar), is a natural deep-water harbour in the southern portion of the Ulhas River estuary. The narrower, northern part of the estuary is called Thana Creek .
The locality was named after the creek, which was in turn named after John Thane, a pioneer pastoralist of the Ellangowan Run, who drowned in the Condamine River in 1844. [2] [4] [5] [6] Thane's Creek Provisional School opened on 10 October 1892, becoming Thane's Creek State School on 22 January 1900. It closed in 1965. [7]
Thana means "police station" in South Asian countries, and can also mean the district controlled by a police station. Thanas of Bangladesh, former subdistricts in the administrative geography of Bangladesh; later renamed upazila; in (British) Indian history, a thana was a group of princely states deemed too small to perform all functions separately