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Solapur
Solapur is a city in southern Maharashtra, India, near the border with Karnataka. A fortified town held in turn by the Bahmani, Bijapur and Ahmadnagar sultanates and the Marathas, it passed to the British in 1818. In the late 19th century it grew into a major centre of cotton textile manufacture.
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