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Which is known as the city of lakes? Why?
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Solution
- Water management played an important role in the agrarian society of those times.
- Hundreds of lakes were created for storing water around the town of Kanchi.
- These lakes were well connected with canals.
- During the later period, Kanchi came to be known as the district of lakes.
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