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'''Balambha''' is a village in [[Jodiya]] taluka of [[Jamnagar District]] of [[Gujarat]] in [[India]]. The taluka headquarters of [[Jodiya]] is at a distance of 15&nbsp;km and [[Jamnagar]] city at a distance of 47&nbsp;km. The Dadhiari Dam on Aji river is at a distance of only 1&nbsp;km.<br />
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==History==<br />
Balambha has a strong inner citadel. This is said in the ''Tarikh-i-Sorath'' by [[Ranchhodji Diwan]] to have been built by Rao [[Deshalji I]] of [[Cutch State]] in 1714, but its construction is popularly ascribed to Meraman Khavas. Probably the Rao first built a small citadel in 1714, afterwards strengthened and enlarged by Meraman Khavas in 1784.<ref name="bg">{{cite book|title=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Kathiawar (Public Domain text)|url=https://archive.org/details/1884GazetteerByBombayPresidencyVol8Kathiawar349D|year=1884|publisher=Printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay|volume=VIII|pages=376–377}}</ref><br />
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The river Aji, which flows by Rajkot, falls into the [[Little Rann of Kutch]] at a distance of about six miles from Balambha. There is a hillock in the lands of Balambha called Bina where there is a Chapter spring of fresh water called the Navghan Kui. It is said that when Ra Navghan of [[Junagadh]] was marching to Cutch to avenge Jaasal, he halted here and was athirst and the men that were with him. In his distress he called on his tutelary goddess to aid him. She directed him to plunge his spear into the hillock ; he did so and water flowed forth and he appeased his thirst and that of his army.<ref name="bg"/><br />
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In the rains of 1881, Balambha was at the centre of the cyclone which visited the north-west of the peninsula ; forty-five inches of rain fell in the three days the cyclone lasted, hundreds of mud-houses were washed down, and it is said that only forty houses in the whole town were uninjured. Much damage was done by this storm, and many cattle died from the damp and exposure.<ref name="bg"/><br />
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==Education==<br />
The village is having all the facilities including a Government Higher Secondary School.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cos-mdm.gujarat.gov.in/Images/jamnagar.pdf |title=Government School at Balambha |access-date=3 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110125080209/http://www.cos-mdm.gujarat.gov.in/Images/jamnagar.pdf |archive-date=25 January 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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==About more==<br />
Balambha is 14th Village in list of smart village project. The project already started and it will may be done in 1000 days.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}}<br />
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==Demographics==<br />
The population is of Kadia Kshatriyas, Satvara, Lohana, Sathvara, etc.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}}<br />
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[[File:PD-icon.svg|10px]] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the [[public domain]]: {{cite book|title=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Kathiawar|url=https://archive.org/details/1884GazetteerByBombayPresidencyVol8Kathiawar349D|year=1884|publisher=Printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay|volume=VIII|pages=376–377}}<br />
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