Geography
The village is 10 km southwest of Junagadh. The main road (Bazaar) divides village from the center. It connects Station and Ozat gates. It is about 3 km long and 30 feet wide, which is wider than other older villages' roads. It has paved sidewalks on both sides. The main road has more than 500 retail stores/businesses, banks, post offices, village administration office (Gram Panchayat Office) temples, mosques, vegetable market, fruit sellers, grocery shops, Pan Masala, bookstores, hotels, snack bars, cafes, repair shops, tailors, goldsmiths, blacksmiths, shoe makers, barber shops, cloth shops, STD/PCO stores, medical stores, electric stores, lumber and hardware stores, agricultural supply stores, Sweet stores, etc.
Because of its connection with Junagadh-State’s Navabs; Shapur was the most planned and developed village of the State. No village of its time in India was as organized as Shapur was. Since then (and even today), the village is protected by a strong fort with 4 main gates around. These gates are known as Station, Ozat, Khan and Ashram gates. Perhaps today, Shapur is the only “fort-village” of India with 15 feet tall fort with 3.5 feet wide walkway and guard-rail on its top. You can take a nice walk on top-of-fort from wide stairways constructed next to both sides of each gate of the fort. Each gate has big hall on its top, from where Navab’s security guards used to monitor the outside activities of the village. The roads and streets of the village are parallel and perpendicular from one end to other end of the village.
Other main roads of the village are Ashram road, Kharakuva road, Khan Darvaja road, Patel Samaj road, Civil hospital road, Society road and Navdurga road.
The various areas of the village are known as Patel Chock (cross section), Bank of Baroda Chock, Panchayat Chock, Navdurga Chock, Azad Chock, Banglapat, Jalaram Chock, Navafari, Rabari pa, Koli pa, Soni pa, Kandarvaja, Kharakuva, Raval ni pipal and Aadarsh Society.
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