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BHERA

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 845 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BHERA  , a

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town of
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British India, in the
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Shahpur
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district of the
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Punjab, situated on the
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river Jhelum . Pop . (1901) 18,680 . It is the
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terminus of a branch of the North-Western railway . It is an important centre of trade, with manufactures of cotton goods, metal-
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work,
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carving, &c . Bhera was founded about 1540 on its
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present site, but it took the place of a city on the opposite
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bank of the river, of far greater antiquity, which was destroyed at this period .

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