Patansavangi
{{short description|Village in Maharashtra}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=April 2017}}
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| other_name = Patansaongi, Patansawagi
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| subdivision_name1 = Maharashtra
| subdivision_type2 = District
| subdivision_name2 = Nagpur district
| subdivision_type3 = Taluka
| subdivision_name3 = Saoner
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| timezone1 = IST
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| postal_code = 441113
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Patansavangi (Patansaongi,{{GEOnet2|32FA8822C0AF3774E0440003BA962ED3)|Patansaongi (Approved)}}, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Patansawagi) is a panchayat village2011 Village Panchayat Code = 182540, for Patansawagi Gram Panchayat {{Cite web|title=Reports of National Panchayat Directory: Village Panchayat Names of Saoner, Nagpur, Maharashtra|publisher=Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India|url=http://panchayatdirectory.gov.in/adminreps/viewpansumSQL.asp?selstate=4455&parenttype=B&ptype=V}} in Maharashtra State, India.2001 Census Village code = 1030100, for Patansavangi village {{Cite web|title=2001 Census of India: List of Villages by Tehsil: Maharashtra|publisher=Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India|page=200|url=http://censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/PLCN/DIR-27r.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111113195156/http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/PLCN/DIR-27r.pdf|archivedate=13 November 2011|url-status=live}}2011 Census Village code = 535314, for Patansavangi village {{Cite web|title=Reports of National Panchayat Directory: List of Census Villages mapped for: Patansawagi Gram Panchayat, Saoner, Nagpur, Maharashtra|publisher=Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India|url=http://panchayatdirectory.gov.in/adminreps/viewGPmapcvills.asp?gpcode=182540&rlbtype=V}} Administratively, Patansavangi is under the Saoner Taluk of Nagpur District in Maharashtra, although earlier (1908) it had been part of the larger Ramtek taluka.{{Cite book|year=1999|title=Central Provinces District Gazetteers, Volume 7, Nagpur District, Volume A, Descriptive|location=Bombay|publisher=Gazetteer Department, Government of Maharashtra|page=326}} revision of 1908 edition It lies on the left (east) bank of the Kolar River, just upstream from its confluence with the Chandrabhaga Nadi.{{Citation|title=Nagpur|series=series U502, sheet NF 44-09|format=topographic map, 1:250,000|publisher=United States Army Map Service|date=June 1959|url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/india/nf-44-09a.jpg}} Patansavangi is 13 km by road southeast of the town of Saoner (Savner) and 25 km by road northwest of the town of Nagpur.
There are three villages in the Patansawagi gram panchayat: Patansavangi, Bidkawadas and Kawadas.
Patansavangi is the site of a Gondi fort dating from the 16th century.{{Cite book|editor=Russell, R. V.|year=1907|title=Central Provinces District Gazetteers: Chhindwara District, Volume A: Descriptive |location=Bombay, India|publisher=Times Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7uErAQAAIAAJ&dq|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=7uErAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA28 28]}} In 1742 there was a massacre at the fort of Gondi people who resisted Raghoji I Bhonsle, with a death toll of up to 12,000.{{Cite book|year=1870|title=The Gazetteer of the Central Provinces of India|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=OVooAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA303 303]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OVooAAAAYAAJ}}