Mandvi, the chief seaport of the principality of Cutch, in India, on the north shore of the Gulf of Cutch, 36 miles SW. of Bhuj, the capital. It has a good roadstead and a breakwater, but the harbour is choked with sand. The pilots are in request all through the state. Pop. (1881) 35,950; (1891) 38,155.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 17
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