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{{Locations_Infobox|presidency=Bombay|image=External links|coordinates==*[http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=17.69139,74.00092&z=12&t=h&hl=en17.wikipedia69139°N 74.org/wiki/Satara_(city) Satara 00092°E] |altitude=742 m (city2,434 ft)] Wikipedia*|presentname=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satara_district Satara_(city) Satara district] Wikipedia|stateprovince=[[Maharashtra]]|country=India|transport=}}{{Places of Interest|title=Satara|name=Satara |link=xxxxx}}
'''Satara''' was the headquarters of Satara District in the Central division of [[Bombay (Presidency)|Bombay Presidency]] during the British period. See [[Bombay Districts]]. Located in the Deccan, it became a cantonment for European troops after the Indian Mutiny. There was a School of Musketry located at Satara, which was in existence in 1907.<ref>[https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23649/lot/64/ Catalogue description of photographs] Bonham's sale, Lot 64, 1 February 2017.</ref> ==Spelling variants==Modern name: Satara<br>Variants: Sattara ==POW and internment camps==During the Boer War, Satara was the location of a POW camp for Boers from South Africa. During the Second World War, an Internment camp for German civilians living in India was located there. For more details, see [[POW Camps in India]] == External links ==*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V22_135.gif Satara City] Imperial Gazetteer<br>*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V22_122.gif Satara District] Imperial Gazetteer*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satara_district Satara district] Wikipedia (retrieved 24 June 2016) ====Historical books online====
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteerbombay08enthgoog ''Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency Volume 19 Satara''] 1885 Archive.org
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteerbombay08enthgoog#page/n566/mode/2up "Satara Town"], page 551
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=TKACAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR4 ''Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government: No. XLI New Series: Memoir on the Satara Territory''] compiled by R Hughes Thomas, Assistant Secretary, Political Department 1857 Google Books
**Includes the cantonment [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=TKACAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA81 page 81] This section was written 1848
*Sattara is listed in [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=bZ8EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA235 a List of all the stations in the Bombay Presidency] ,with details, page 235 ''Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, Volume VII, New Series 1861'' Google Books
*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/454/mode/2up Sattara] page 455 ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org
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