 Navsari is also a famous place due to the great Satyagraha march led by Mahatma Gandhi till the dandi.Navsari was originally known as "Navasarika", and was the capital of a "vishya" (an administrative unit) in the Lata region.It is identified with "Nusaripa", a city mentioned in Ptolemy's 2nd century Greek-language work "Geography".