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Delhi is an independent district adjacent to the states of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, and Rajasthan. It is ... equidistant from both Mumbai and Calcutta, making it an intermediate for travellers to the latter 2 cities.
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The citizens of Delhi enjoy an excellent quality of life. There is plenty of affordable housing and property taxes are reasonable. When the work day is done, you won’t be spending your time stewing in a traffic jam. You could take in a round of golf at Delhi’s own 18-hole golf course, go for an invigorating bike ride with the local cycling club, play soccer or baseball, work out in the fitness centre, visit the nearby beaches of Lake Erie, go fishing, attend a meeting of one of the many service clubs, take a leisurely stroll through town or enjoy the peace and quiet in your own back yard. In winter the Delhi area is popular for snowmobiling and ice fishing. The community arena provides a fine ice surface for hockey and skating.
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The Delhi region—a triangular area bounded by the hills of the Aravali Range on two sides and the Yamuna River on the third—has been the site of one great city after another. Traditionally, it is said that there have been seven cities of Delhi, though some historians believe that successive cities were built in as many as 15 different localities within the region.
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The landscape of Delhi can geographically be divided into three major regions - the low-lying Yamuna flood plain, the Aravalli Ridge region and the great Gangetic Plains that cover most parts of the city. The Yamuna River is the only river flowing through Delhi and most parts of the city lie west of the Yamuna River.
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Originally named 'Fredericksburg' for Frederick Sovereign who settled the area in the early 1800s, the name was changed to Delhi in 1872. With the arrival of the railway and post offices to rural Ontario, a number of similarly named towns brought the change of many town names to capital cities of various countries.
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During Akhar's reign and that of his son Jahangir, the capital was either at Agra or at Lahore, and Delhi once more fell into decay. Between 1638 and 1658... Shah Jahan rebuilt it almost in its present form; and his city remains substantially the Delhi of the present time. The imperial palace, the Jama Masjid or Great Mosque, and the restoration of what is now the western Jumna canal, are the work of Shah Jahan. The Mogul empire rapidly expanded during the reigns of Akbar and his successors down to Aurungzeb, when it attained its climax. After the death of the latter monarch, in 1707, came the decline. Insurrections 957 and civil wars on the part of the Hindu tributary chiefs, Sikhs and Mahrattas, broke out.
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