Manikpur, Uttar Pradesh

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Garhi Manikpur, Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh Garhi Manikpur
Town Area
Garhi Manikpur, Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh Located in Uttar Pradesh, India
Coordinates: 25°55′59″N 81°58′59″E / 25.933°N 81.983°E / 25.933; 81.983Coordinates: 25°55′59″N 81°58′59″E / 25.933°N 81.983°E / 25.933; 81.983
Country	India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Pratapgarh
Government
• Type	Town Area, (Nagar Panchayat)
• Chairman	Ram Naresh Mourya
Elevation	178 m (584 ft)
Population (2009)
• Total	14,850
Languages
• Official	Hindi
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN	230202
Telephone code	05341
Website	http://www.garhimanikpur.in

Manikpur (new name Garhi Manikpur) is a town and a 'nagar panchayat' or municipal area in Pratapgarh district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. This town is called the "town of kings and saints". Kings who lived in Manikpur include Alauddin Khilji, Jalaluddin Khilji, Balban, Raja Manikchand and Raja Tassuq Husain (father-in-law of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah of Awadh).

References

v t e Cities and towns in Pratapgarh district

Pratapgarh	Antu Atheha Bela Pratapgarh Benti Bhadri Derwa Katra Gulab Singh Katra Medniganj Kalakankar Kunda Mandhata Manikpur Patti Lalganj Ajhara Sadar Vishwanathganj Pratapgarh

Other districts	Agra Aligarh Allahabad Ambedkar Nagar Amethi Amroha Auraiya Azamgarh Badaun Bagpat Bahraich Ballia Balrampur Banda Barabanki Bareilly Basti Bhimnagar Bijnor Bulandshahr Chandauli Chitrakoot Deoria Etah Etawah Faizabad Farrukhabad Fatehpur Firozabad Gautam Buddha Nagar Ghaziabad Ghazipur Gonda Gorakhpur Hamirpur Hardoi Hathras Jalaun Jaunpur Jhansi Kannauj Kanpur Nagar Kanshi Ram Nagar Kaushambi Kushinagar Lakhimpur Kheri Lalitpur Lucknow Maharajganj Mahoba Mainpuri Mathura Mau Meerut Mirzapur Moradabad Muzaffarnagar Panchsheel Nagar Pilibhit Prabuddhanagar Raebareli Ramabai Nagar Rampur Saharanpur Sant Kabir Nagar Sant Ravidas Nagar Shahjahanpur Shravasti Siddharthnagar Sitapur Sonbhadra Sultanpur Unnao Varanasi

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