Simraungadh

Simraungadh, also written Simraongarh or Simroungarh, is a municipality in Bara District of Nepal, on the flat and fertile Terai plain along the border with India. It lies 90 kilometres south of Kathmandu and 28 kilometres east of Birgunj, at an average elevation of 83 metres, and Bhojpuri is the local language. The municipality was created in 2014 from the village development committees of Amritganj, Golaganj, Hariharpur and Uchidih and was later enlarged to include Bhagwanpur, Kachorwa, Dewapur-Teta and Bishnupur. The name comes from the simal tree of the area. From the 11th century to the early 14th century the fortified city was the capital of an independent Hindu kingdom of Mithila, or Tirhut, ruled by the Karnat dynasty, which the article dates to a kingdom founded in 1097. The medieval city was enclosed by earthen ramparts and ditches, and visitors come to the Ranivas temple and palace complex, built in its present form in 1878, to the Kankali Temple and to the large artificial Jharokhar pond.