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Why did people from distant land visit surat????????????? :P

Surat: Surat was the gateway for trade with West Asia via the Gulf of Ormuz. Surat has also been called the gate to Mecca because many pilgrim ships set sail from here. The city was cosmopolitan and people of all castes and creeds lived there. In the seventeenth century the Portuguese, Dutch and English had their factories and warehouses at Surat.

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People visited surat because it was the gateway to the west. It was the centre of trade.It was also the gate to mecca since many pilgrim ships set sail from surat.People of many castes and creeds lived here so it was also a cosmopolitan

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surat was also famous for zari

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surat was theemporium of the western trade. it was also known as the gate to mecca because many piligrims ships set sail from here.


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it was the emporium of western trade with west asia  during the mughal period along with khambat.

it was called to gate to mecca because piligrim ships set sail from here.

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