Kathiawar

Kathiawar ([kɑʈʰijɑʋɑɽ]) is a peninsula, near the far north of India's west coast, of about 61,000 km2 (23,500 sq mi) bordering the Arabian Sea.

In the northeast, it is connected to the rest of Gujarat and borders on the low, fertile hinterland of Ahmedabad.

It is crossed by two belts of hill country and is drained radially by nine rivers which have little natural flow aside from in monsoon months, thus dams have been built on some of these.

[2][3] The state of the region in the early nineteenth century is shown in Letitia Elizabeth Landon's poetical illustration, "Scene in Kattiawar", to an engraving of a painting by Clarkson Frederick Stanfield.

[5] Gir National Park and its surroundings host the last remaining Asiatic lion population.

Kathiawar 1855 with its four prant districts: Halar , Jhalavad , Sorath and Gohilwad .
Arrow Pillar or Baan-Stambh at Somnath
Presents districts of old Kathiawar, Gujarat . (Note: Diu is not politically a part of Gujarat , currently it belongs to the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu .)
Scene in Kattiawar, Travellers and Escort, 1830
People of Mer Community (primarily found in Saurashtra) in one of the Sword dance forms
Bhil women of Kathiawar, 1890
Gop Temple in Kathiawad, 1897.