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It is located in the southern part of the state, at 25.26 N. lat. and 81.50' E, and stands at the confluence of the Ganga (Ganges) and Yamuna rivers.
The modern settlement was built on or the site of the ancient holy city of Prayag and is thus the site of a major Hindu festival known as the Kumbha Mela. Allahabad was founded, as al-Ilhahabad, by the Mogul Emperor Akbar in 1583.
Allahabad was earlier the capital of the United Provinces (the British raj incarnation of Uttar Pradesh) till the 1920s. It was well-known as an educational centre, and in the first few decades of the 20th century, the Allahabad University had earned for itself the epithet of 'Oxford of the East'. It was also a major literary centre for Hindi, and numerous litterateurs were connected to it in some way or the other.
Allahabad was also the birthplace of Jawaharlal Nehru, and the Nehru family estate in the city is now a museum. It has produced more prime ministers than any other city in India.
Moreover, because solar events in Allahabad occur exactly 5 hours and 30 minutes ahead of Greenwich, the city is the reference point for Indian Standard Time, maintained by the city's observatory.
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