Yavatmal District
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Yavatmal district यवतमाळ जिल्हा |
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| District of Maharashtra | |
 Location of Yavatmal district in Maharashtra |
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| Country | India |
| State | Maharashtra |
| Administrative division | Amravati Division |
| Headquarters | Yavatmal |
| Tehsils | 1.Arni, 2.Umarkhed, 3.Kalamb, 4.Pandharkawada Kelapur, 5.Ghatanji, 6.Zari Jamani, 7.Darwha, 8.Digras, 9.Ner, 10.Pusad, 11.Babhulgaon, 12.Mahagaon, 13.Maregaon, 14.Yavatmal, 15.Ralegaon 16.Wani |
| Government | |
| • Lok Sabha constituencies | 1. Yavatmal-Washim (shared with Washim district), 2. Hingoli (shared with Hingoli district), 3. Chandrapur (shared with Chandrapur district). |
| • Assembly seats | 7 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 13,584 km2 (5,245 sq mi) |
| Population (2001) | |
| • Total | 2,460,482 |
| • Density | 180/km2 (470/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 18.60 |
| Demographics | |
| • Literacy | 74.06% |
| • Sex ratio | 942 |
| Average annual precipitation | 1029 mm |
| Website | Official website |
Yavatmal district (
pronunciation , Marathi: यवतमाळ जिल्हा), formerly known as Yeotmal, is a district of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is located in the region of Vidarbha, in the east-central part of the state.Yavatmal town is the administrative headquarters of this district. The incumbent District Collector is Ashwin Mudgal.
It is believed that Yavatmal, along with the rest of the erstwhile Berar province, was part of the legendary kingdom of Vidarbha mentioned in the Mahabharata. Berar also formed part of the Mauryan Empire during the reign of Ashoka (272 to 231 BCE). Berar later came under the rule of the Satavahana dynasty (2nd century BCE–2nd century CE), the Vakataka dynasty (3rd to 6th centuries), the Chalukya dynasty (6th to 8th centuries), the Rashtrakuta dynasty (8th to 10th centuries), the Western Chalukya (10th to 12th centuries), and finally the Yadava dynasty of Devagiri (late 12th to early 14th centuries). A period of Muslim rule began when Ala ud din Khilji, Sultan of Delhi, conquered the region in the early 14th century. The region was part of the Bahmani Sultanate, which broke away from the Delhi Sultanate in the mid-14th century. The Bahmani Sultanate broke up into smaller sultanates at the end of the 15th century, and in 1572 Berar became part of the Nizam Shahi sultanate, based at Ahmednagar. The Nizam Shahis ceded Berar to the Mughal Empire in 1595. As Mughal rule started to unravel at the start of the 18th century, Asaf Jah I, Nizam of Hyderabad seized the southern provinces of the empire (including Berar) in 1724, forming an independent state.
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