Historical Regions Of Rohilkhand
Rohilkhand is a region of northwestern Uttar Pradesh state of India, named after the Rohilla Afghan tribes. The region was known as Madhyapradesh in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
Rohilkhand lies on the upper Ganges alluvial plain and has an area of about 25,000 km²/10,000 square miles (in and around the City of Bareilly). It is bounded by the Ganges River on the south and the west by Uttarakhand and Nepal on the north, and by the Awadh region to the east.It include cities of Bareilly, Moradabad, Rampur, Bijnore, Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur etc.
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