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  • proper noun The capital city of the state of Haryana in India.

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Examples

  • In towns and cities like Lucknow, Varanasi, Panipat, Ambala and Meerut, McDonald's branches are mobbed when they first open, with first-time fast-food buyers snapping up items off of the menu unique to India.

    McDonald's Growth Accelerates in India 2010

  • There are plans to stop trains across Jalandhar, Amritsar, Karnal and Ambala.

    Election Digest: Protests Peak in Punjab, Tytler Defiant 2009

  • Residents of Buner reported seeing convoys of army armored vehicles and artillery moving along the winding road through the Ambala pass, the main approach to Buner from the south.

    Pakistan Launches Air Strikes Against Taliban 2009

  • The same thing happened with the districts of Ambala and Gurdaspur which were detached from Muslim Punjab, despite having Muslim majority populations, and dishonestly given to India by Britain.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Ambala is a small city in Haryana, close to Chandigarh.

    Ambala Dhaba Restaurant - Los Angeles, CA 2007

  • So the Englishman now refers to the ‘Panjab,’ to the ‘pandit so and so,’ or to ‘the troubles at Ambala or Amritsar.’

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • So the Englishman now refers to the ‘Panjab,’ to the ‘pandit so and so,’ or to ‘the troubles at Ambala or Amritsar.’

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • So the Englishman now refers to the ‘Panjab,’ to the ‘pandit so and so,’ or to ‘the troubles at Ambala or Amritsar.’

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • At the sacred Ambala tank at Ramtek the Mahars have a special bathing-ghat set apart for them, and they may enter the citadel and go as far as the lowest step leading up to the temples; here they worship the god and think that he accepts their offerings.

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

  • Prince Tchajawadse was also induced by this intelligence to abandon his intended route via Ambala, and to proceed in a direct line through the jungle.

    The Coming Conquest of England August Niemann 1879

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