Satara

Satara is a city in the Satara District of Maharashtra, India, near the confluence of the river Krishna and its tributary the Venna. The English Wikipedia article says the city was established in the 16th century and was the seat of Shahu I, the Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire, and that Raja Bhoj II of the Shilahara dynasty built a fort here between 1178 and 1193, around which the city was later founded. It has a tropical wet and dry climate (Koppen Aw) influenced by its relatively high altitude and the surrounding mountains. As of the 2011 census Satara had a population of 120,079, of whom 52 percent were male, with an average literacy rate of 80 percent.