• District – Ahmednagar
• Headquarters – Ahmednagar
• State – Maharashtra

• Total – 17048
• Rural – 16581.43
• Urban – 466.57

• Population – 4543159
• Rural – 3630542
• Urban – 912617
• Male – 2342825
• Female – 2200334
• Sex Ratio (Females per 1000 males) – 939
• Density (Total, Persons per sq km) – 266

• Assembly – 12
• Loksabha – 2

• Official Website – http://ahmednagar.gov.in

Tourist Places :

SALABAT   KHAN’S TOMB :

In order to wreak his revenge on the Bahamani king, who had distrusted  and sought to destroy him, Ahmed Nizam Shah,as Malik ahmed now called himself, decided to destroy Daulatabad. He shifted his headquarter from Junnar near Pune ,to Ahmednagar, in order to come within striking distance of Daulatabad which lay 75 miles south-west of Ahmednagar. The foundation of city  of Ahmenadgar was laid in 1494 on the left bank of Sina river. In the centre of the city was the Bagh Nizam( the Garden of Victory). In 1499,Malik Ahmed has his revenge. He captured Daulatabad Fort and destroyed the Bahamin kingdom. To commemorate this second victory, he raised a wall around the Bagh Nizam.the Bagh Nizam Later become Ahmednagar Fort. 

KOT BAGH NIZAM :

In 1599,Akbar captured Ahmednagar. The NizamShahi saw a brief resurgence during this period ,when Malik Amber, regent of tenth Nizam Shah,Murtaza-II, consolidated the NizamShahi at Paranda,75 miles northeast of Ahmednagar The Nizam Shahi ended in 1636,after nearly 150 years of ascendancy over Ahmednagar. The Mughal Emperor Shah jahan captured Ahmednagar in 1640.He crushed the Nizam Shah & established the Mughal rule which was to last till 1759. Shivaji invaded Ahmednagar twice during this period ,in 1657 & 1665,& his army continued to harass the Mughals all through. After the death of shivaji in 1680, Aurangzeb entered the Deccan & despite continuous hara- ssment by  the Marathas, held sway over entire region till his death at Ahmednagar, near Bhingar,on 21 Feb 1707.He was buried at mausoleum designed by himself at Aurangabad. A small tomb was erected at Ahmednagar where his mortal remains were bathed  and prepared for burial, before the final journey to Aurangabad.

FARIA BAGH PALACE :

The third Nizam Shah, Hussain, who ascended the throne in 1553 AD, found himself constantly at war with his neighbours. Six years after his ascension, he was besieged by Ram Raja, the king of Vijaynagar. He decided to strengthen the mud edifice created by his grandfather, which he had been using as a fort.

A team of Portuguese engineers was commissioned, and they created what is seen of the Ahmednagar fort today. Over a mile in circumference, it was built from rock hewn out of the moat, almost 200 feet wide and twenty feet deep. The duke of Wellington, who captured the fort in 1803, considered it one of the strongest forts he had ever seen.

In 1942 Pandit Nehru and other Indian leaders were incarcerated within the walls of the fort. Pandit Nehru wrote famous book ‘Discovery of India’  during this period.