Editing Thane (section)

== Etymology and other names ==
The ancient name of Thana was {{IAST|Śrīsthāna}}. It appears as {{transliteration|hi|Thāna}} in early medieval Arab sources.<ref>{{citation |last=Verdon |first=Noémie |title=Negotiating Cultural Identity: Landscapes in Early Medieval South Asian History |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CgXgCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA37 |page=38 |year=2015 |editor=Himanshu Prabha Ray |chapter=Conceptualisation of ''al-Hind'' by Arabic and Persian writers |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-34130-7}}</ref>

The name Thane has been variously Romanised as '''Tana''',<ref>{{citation |contribution-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OaqWAEry-wkC&pg=PA68 |contribution=Bd Thomas of Tolentino |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=OaqWAEry-wkC&pg=PA68 68] |title=Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OaqWAEry-wkC |editor2=Peter Doyle |editor-last=Butler |editor-first=Alban |date=c. 1756|publisher=A&C Black |isbn=9780860122531 }}.</ref> '''Thana''',<ref>{{citation |last=Habig |first=Marion Alphonse |title=The Franciscan Book of Saints |date=1979 |publisher=Franciscan Herald Press}}, cited in {{citation |contribution-url=http://www.roman-catholic-saints.com/thomas-of-tolentino-and-companions.html |contribution=Thomas of Tolentino and Companions |title=Roman Catholic Saints |access-date=9 November 2016}}.</ref> '''Thâṇâ''',<ref>{{citation |last=Cunha |first=J. Gerson da |title=Notes on the History and Antiquities of Chaul and Bassein |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xOPlusO8qcAC |location=Bombay |date=1876 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=xOPlusO8qcAC&pg=PA174 174]|isbn=9788120608450 }}.</ref> and '''Thame'''.<ref>{{citation |contribution-url=http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=2310 |contribution=Bl. Thomas of Tolentino |title=Catholic Online}}.</ref> [[Ibn Battuta]] and [[Abulfeda]] knew it as '''Kukin{{nbsp}}Tana'''; [[Duarte Barbosa]] as '''Tana{{nbsp}}Mayambu'''.<ref>{{harvp|Cunha|1876|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=xOPlusO8qcAC&pg=PA16 16]}}.</ref> Before [[Renaming of cities in India|1996]], the city was called "Thana", the British spelling of the city, until it was replaced with the more-local name.