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Bhavnagar

British  
/ ˈbɑːvnəɡə /

noun

  1. a port in W India, in S Gujarat. Pop: 510 958 (2001)

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Other ports including Bedi, Navlakhi, Porbandar, Okha, Pipavav and Bhavnagar have also closed due to the cyclone, according to shipping sources.

From Reuters • Jun. 13, 2023

When the riots began, Rahul Sharma was the senior police officer in charge of Bhavnagar, a district with a Muslim population of more than seventy thousand.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019

But in the Bhavnagar district of Gujarat, where Makwana lives, about 70% of female representatives govern only on paper, as proxies for men, according to Anandi, an organisation that trains rural women for leadership.

From The Guardian • Sep. 10, 2015

In 1969, he married Neela Devi Gohil from the former royal family of Bhavnagar in Gujarat.

From The Guardian • Aug. 15, 2011

The Nawab of Bhavnagar State presented fifty fully equipped Arab horses to the force, and quantities of other prominent Nawabs displayed corresponding liberality.

From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 by Creswicke, Louis