Sangameshwar

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| name = Sangameshwar Taluka

| native_name = संगमेश्वर

| native_name_lang = mr

| settlement_type = Taluka

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| pushpin_map = India Maharashtra

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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Maharashtra, India

| coordinates = {{coord|17.187|N|73.553|E|display=inline,title}}

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}

| subdivision_type1 = State

| subdivision_type2 = District

| subdivision_name1 = Maharashtra

| subdivision_name2 = Ratnagiri

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| unit_pref = Metric

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| demographics_type1 = Languages

| demographics1_title1 = Official

| timezone1 = IST

| utc_offset1 = +5:30

| postal_code_type = PIN

| postal_code = 415611

| area_code = 02354

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| registration_plate = MH-08

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Sangameshwar Taluka is a taluka in Ratnagiri subdivision of Ratnagiri district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The headquarters for the taluka is the town of Devrukh.The headquarters was moved from the village of Sangameshwar to Devrukh in 1878.{{Cite web|title=Devrukh|publisher=Ratnagiri District|url=http://ratnagiri.nic.in/gazetter/gom/places_Devrukh.html}} In Sangameshwar the two rivers Sonavi and Shastri flow together. The meaning of Sangama in Sanskrit (and most Indian languages) is "confluence," and so the name "Sangameshwar". It is historically important as the place where Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, son of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was captured by the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.{{Cite book | author=Alexander Mikaberidze |author-link= Alexander Mikaberidze| title=Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: A Historical Encyclopedia | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jBBYD2J2oE4C&pg=PA609 | access-date=6 March 2012 | date=31 July 2011 | publisher=ABC-CLIO | isbn=978-1-59884-337-8 | page=609}}