Moradabad is a city in Uttar Pradesh state of India. It was established in 1600 by Murad, the son of the Mughal Emperor Akbar; as a result the city came to known as Moradabad. It is the administrative headquarters of Moradabad District. Uttar Pradesh (Hindi: उत्तर प्रदेश, Urdu: اتر پردیش), also popularly known by its abbreviation UP, is the most populous and fifth largest state in the Union of India. ... 1597 1598 1599 - 1600 - 1601 1602 1603 |- | align=center colspan=2 | Decades: 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s |- | align=center | Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |} // Events January January 1 - Scotland adopts January 1st as being New Years Day February February 17 - Giordano Bruno burned at the... The Mughal Empire (alternative spelling Mogul, which is the origin of the word Mogul) of India was founded by Babur in 1526, when he defeated Ibrahim Lodi, the last of the Delhi Sultans at the First Battle of Panipat. ... Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar (Persian: جلال الدین محمد اکبر), (alternative spellings include Jellaladin, Celalettin) also known as Akbar the Great (Akbār-e-Azam) (October 15, 1542 – October 27, 1605) was the ruler of the Mughal Empire from the time of his accession in 1556 until 1605. ... Moradabad is a district of Uttar Pradesh. ...

Moradabad is situated at a distance of 167 km (104 miles) from the national capital, New Delhi, at the bank of River Ram Ganga (a tributary to the great Ganges). The city is famous for its huge export of brass handicrafts to North America and Europe, and is also thus called "Brass City" or Peetal Nagri (in the local language). It has close to one million citizens of various ethnicities and religions. A kilometer (Commonwealth spelling: kilometre), symbol: km is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 1,000 metres (from the Greek words χίλια (khilia) = thousand and μέτρο (metro) = count/measure). ... A mile is a unit of distance (or, in physics terminology, length) currently defined as 5,280 feet, 1,760 yards, or 63,360 inches. ... The Humayuns Tomb, situated in New Delhi, has an architectural design similar to the Taj Mahal. ... Early morning on the Ganges The River Ganges (Ganga in Indian languages) (Devanagiri गंगा) is a major river in northern India. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... Europe is conventionally considered one of the seven continents of Earth which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiographic one, leading to some dispute as to Europes actual borders. ...

At present the district is divided into 6 subdivisions namely Moradabd Sadar, Billary, Kaanth, Chandausi, Thakur dwar, Sambhal.

JP Nagar a new district has been formed after dividing a large part from Moradabad.

Famous personalities

• Jigar Moradabadi
• rigzin samphel, IAS probationer 2006

Satish Pal,PCS,2006 Jigar Moradabadi (nom de plume, not his real name) was a poet who hailed from Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, and is famous for his Urdu ghazals. ...

Arts and crafts

Satish Pal , ACM-1st

Population

2001 census: 641,240

External links

• Moradabad (by the National Informatics Centre, Moradabad)