One of the Panj Takhts of Sikhi, Hazur Sahib is located in the city of Nanded.

From a copper plate inscription found at Washim, a town approximately 150 kilometres (93 mi) north of Nanded, archaeologists deduce the city was formerly known as Nanditaṭa (Marathi: नंदितट).

[3][better source needed] Folklore suggests that the name "Nanded" developed from Nandi the Vahana of Shiva.

[citation needed] In the 1st century CE, power in the area lay with the Andhrabhrtyas and Satvahanas.

Local irrigation practices and Nanded itself are recorded in the treatise, Leela Charitra (late 1200s CE).

[5] Nanded was the birthplace of three Marathi poet-saints—Vishnupant Shesa, Raghunath Shesa, and Vaman Pandit[6] Construction of Kandhar Fort, located in Kandhar, is attributed to the Rashtrakuta king Krishna III of Malkheda who ruled around 10th century CE.

From 1636, Nanded was the centre of governance of Nizam State, which includes present-day Telangana and Karnataka, and was an imperial province of the Mughal Badshah (emperor) Shah Jahan.

When Bahadur Shah moved on to Golconda, Guru Gobind Singh remained in Nanded.

Guru Gobind Singh died without a lineal descendant due to the martyrdom of his four sons.

Nanded remained part of the Hyderabad state until 1956 when it was included in the Bombay Presidency.

[15] Nanded is built on the Deccan Traps lava flows of the upper cretaceous to lower eocene eras.

Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji Airport operates flights to Delhi, Jodhpur, Bangalore, Pune, Nagpur, Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Hyderabad.

Crops grown around Nanded include cotton, bananas, sugarcane, mangoes, soya beans, sweet limes, Grapes, Papaya, and sorghum (jawar).

The university supervises the educational activities in senior colleges in four districts of Marathwada division.