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Almora

Almora is a hill town in the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, India, on a ridge at about 1,600 metres. It became the capital of the Chand rajas of Kumaon around 1563, was taken by the Gorkhas of Nepal in 1790, and passed to the British after the Anglo-Nepalese War in 1815. It remained an important administrative and cultural centre of the Kumaon hills.

Almora
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Kumaon Kingdom

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Almora. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/almora
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