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Sholapur

American  
[shoh-luh-poor] / ˈʃoʊ ləˌpʊər /
Or Solapur

noun

  1. a city in S Maharashtra state, in SW India.


Sholapur British  
/ ˈʃəʊləˌpʊə /

noun

  1. a city in SW India, in S Maharashtra: major textile centre. Pop: 873 037 (2001)

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Bhagwat Chitra Mandir in Sholapur city in Maharashtra is a grand theatre built in 1935.

From BBC

Pandupur.—Pandharpur, on the Bhima river, 38 miles due west of Sholapur; famous for its temple to Vithoba.

From Project Gutenberg

Most significant was the suppression of news from Sholapur, no remote outpost among wild tribes, but a prosperous cotton milling city of 120,000, only 220 miles from the teeming seaport of Bombay.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such references as British correspondents in India made to Sholapur last week, did not omit the humorous side of the city's few days of swaraj.

From Time Magazine Archive

Courts functioning under martial law at Sholapur jailed wholesale those guilty of promoting swaraj, for terms up to ten years.

From Time Magazine Archive