Jhang Maghiāna

Jhang Maghiāna

      city consisting of twin towns, headquarters of Jhang Maghiāna District, Sargodha Division, Punjab Province, Pakistan, just east of the Chenāb River. Maghiāna lies on the edge of the highlands overlooking the alluvial valley, while Jhang occupies the lowlands at its foot. They are connected by two roads and by the Grand Trunk Road with Peshāwar and Lahore. Maghiāna, founded by Megha, ancestor of the Maghiāna Siāls, has become more important than Jhang, originally founded in AD 1462 and reestablished in 1688 after a flood destroyed the original settlement. Maghiāna is a wool-collecting centre, with handloom industries; its manufactures include soap, leather, locks, and brass work. In Jhang is a government blanket-manufacture centre, and there are other textile industries as well. The twin towns, constituted a municipality in 1867, contain a hospital, public garden, and government college affiliated with the University of the Punjab.

      The area around Jhang and Maghiāna is primarily agricultural. Irrigation by means of the Chenāb Canal system is used to grow wheat and cotton. The Shorkot ruins, south of Jhang Maghiāna, may represent a city captured by Alexander the Great in 325 BC. Pop. (1998 prelim.) 292,214.

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