BHARUCH A SEA PORT OF THE PAST.

BHARUCH on the bank of river Narmada, a sea-port of the history, is in the Indian state of Gujarat.
As a trading depot, the limitation of coastal shipping made it a regular terminus via several mixed trade routes of fabled spice and silk trading between East and West, so that is became known to history by various names such as Bharakuccha, Bhrigu Kaksha , Broach as well as Bharuch.
Bharuch was once but a small village on the banks of the river Narmada River but the rivers inland access to central and northern India and with a location in the sheltered Gulf of Khambat in the era of coastal sea travel grew and prospered as a trading transshipment center and ship building port.
Certainly by the 500 BC the city was known, at least by reputation, via land-sea routes, to the Arabs, Ethiopian, Egyptians, Greeks, Persians, Western Romans, Carthaginians, and eventually, the Eastern Roman Empires and Republic of Venice.
Excavations near the banks of the river Narmada in Bharuch have revealed many archaeological and architectural wonders, mostly temple.
Although water tends to be scarce in Gujarat, one never finds difficulty in getting water in Bharuch. As a result of this, agriculture and other linked commercial activities have flourished in Bharuch,
Bharuch is a prominent center of chemical based industries.