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Monday, November 1, 2010

Depalpur

 Depalpur is very ancient as well as historic city about 2000 years old, this is the city has been damaged and rebuilt several times during this period. According to the Indian historian Abnashi Chander the actual name of this city was Siri Puria. After that Raja Depa Chand renamed Depalpur, which was the name of his beloved son Raja Depa.


This is the famous Minar of Razaqia Masjid Depalpur

According to historians, it was about 2000 years ago when Aryans entered the Subcontinent they began to live in the land of Pert Sindhu (The Land of Seven Rivers) including River Ravi, Chinab, Satluj, Jhelum, Beas, Indus and Kabul. So the famous civilisation which was developed at that time was Ajodhan (Pakpattan), Qabula and Depalpur. Now the Depalpur is a tehsil of district Okara and it is an older tehsil than Okara. This area also remained the part of Montgomery District before 1982 when Okara became a district.

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