Parbhani

Parbhani is a city in the Indian state of Maharashtra and the administrative headquarters of Parbhani district, one of the largest cities of the Marathwada region. It is about 200 km from the regional headquarters at Aurangabad and 491 km from the state capital Mumbai. With the rest of Marathwada it belonged to the Nizam State and then to Hyderabad State, joined Bombay state when states were reorganised in 1956, and has been part of Maharashtra since 1960. The city is home to Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Agricultural University, one of only four agriculture universities in the state, and it holds an annual festival at the Turabul Haq Dargah. It was known in ancient times as Prabhavati nagari after a temple of the goddess Prabhavati. The 2011 census counted 307,170 residents.