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Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

[edit] Morvi Town

{Morbi). — Chief town of the State of the same name in Kathiawar, Bombay, situated in 22° 49' N. and 70° 53' E., on the west bank of the river Machhu, which 22 miles farther north enters the Gulf of Cutch. Population (1901), 17,820. Morvi is the terminus of the Morvi State Railway, 35 miles distant from Rajkot. Old Morvi, said to have been founded by Mor Jethwa, is situated on the eastern bank of the river, about a mile from the present town. It was called Mordhvajpuri and afterwards Bhimor. The present town is said to derive its name from the Morbo hill where Sanghji Jethwa defeated a Vaghela Rana, and in commemoration of his conquest founded the present town on the opposite bank of the river to Mordhvajpuri.

Afterwards when ^Mordhvajpuri became waste in the wars of the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century, most of the wealthy inhabitants removed their dwellings to the present site in order to place the river between them and the foreign invader. A made road connects Morvi with the port of Vavania and the town of Tankara. The town contains a public park and a library and several fine buildings.