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Pune
The name Pune is derived from Modi Puṇyanagari (पुण्यनगरी) (City of Virtue). The oldest reference to this name was found on a Rashtrakuta Dynasty copper plate dated 937 C.E., which refers to the town as Punya-Vishaya or Poonak-Vishaya (पुण्य – विष्य).

By the 13th century, it had come to be known as Punawadi (पुनवडी). Till the 1960s the official name of the city was Poona which then changed to Pune.