Bellary

Bellary ; ಬಳ್ಳಾರಿ
State :	India
State :	Karnataka
District :	Bellary
Sub-district :	Bellary
Location :	15 ° 9 ′ N , 76 ° 55 ′ E Coordinates: 15 ° 9 ′ N , 76 ° 55 ′ E
Height :	440 m
Area :	81.95 km²
Residents :	410,445 (2011)
Population density :	5008 inhabitants / km²
Website :	www.bellarycity.mrc.gov.in
	The Fort Bellary

Bellary , officially Ballari since 2014 ( Kannada : ಬಳ್ಳಾರಿ Baḷḷāri [ ˈbʌɭːaːri ]), is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka .

With around 410,000 inhabitants (2011 census), Bellary is the eighth largest city in Karnataka. Bellary is located a good 300 kilometers north of Bangalore at an altitude of around 450 meters above sea level on the Dekkan Plateau in eastern central Carnataka. It is less than 20 kilometers to the border with the neighboring state of Andhra Pradesh . The city is the administrative seat of the Bellary District .

history

In Bellary, a 602-meter-high rock rises from the otherwise flat area, with a fortress on the top. Fort Bellary was built during the Vijayanagar era by Hanumappa Nayaka, a feudal lord of the Vijayanagar rulers. After the fall of the Vijayanagar Empire in 1565, Hanumappa Nayaka's descendants served as vassals to the Sultanate of Bijapur . Around 1678 the famous Marathi King Shivaji took Fort Bellary, but reinstated the local rulers in return for paying tribute. In 1761, Bellary Basalat Jang, the ruler of Adoni, paid tribute. The ruler of Bellary refused to pay tribute, whereupon Basalat besieged Jang Bellary and asked Hyder Ali , the ruler of Mysore, for support. Hyder Ali then conquered and annexed Bellary. During his reign the fortress was expanded. Bellary stayed with Mysore until Hyder Ali's son and successor Tipu Sultan ceded it to Hyderabad in 1792 . The Nizam of Hyderabad in turn ceded Bellary to the British in 1800 , who made it a garrison seat and incorporated into the Madras presidency . In 1840 Bellary became the district capital. When the new state of Andhra was formed from the Telugu-speaking northern part of the province of Madras after Indian independence in 1953 , Bellary came to the state of Mysore because of its predominantly Kannada- speaking population, which was reformed in 1956 and renamed Karnataka in 1973 .

To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Karnataka in 2006, the state government decided, following a proposal by the writer UR Ananthamurthy , to change the English names of 13 cities in Karnataka to their Kannada name forms. As a result, Bellary should be renamed Ballari . The Indian central government under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh initially did not agree to the name change. Only under the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi , who was newly elected in 2014 , did the renaming officially take effect on November 1, 2014.

population

According to the 2011 census, Bellary has 410,445 inhabitants. 70 percent of the population are Hindus , 27 percent are Muslims , 2 percent are Christians and 1 percent are Jains . The main language of Karnataka, the Kannada , is spoken in Bellary according to the 2001 census only by a relative majority of 39 percent of the population as their mother tongue. There are also large minorities of speakers of Telugu (28 percent), the language of the neighboring state of Andhra Pradesh , and Urdu (25 percent), which is spoken by most Muslims. Smaller minorities speak Hindi (3 percent), Marathi (2 percent) and Tamil (2 percent).

Economy and Infrastructure

The steel industry is located in Bellary and exploits the rich ore deposits in the area. National Highway 63 runs through the city from Ankola on the west coast via Hubli and Guntakal to Gooty in Andhra Pradesh. The railway line from Hubli to Guntakal runs parallel to this. Bellary has two train stations, Bellary Junction and Bellary Cantonment . The Bellary Airport is currently not operating.

Web links

Commons : Bellary - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Census of India 2011.
^ S. Rajendran: Center mum on 'Bengaluru'. The Hindu , December 18, 2007, accessed October 30, 2015 .
↑ Mugdha Variyar: Bangalore, Mysore, Karnataka Other Cities to be Renamed on 1 November. International Business Times, October 18, 2014, accessed October 30, 2015 .
^ Census of India 2011: C-1 Population By Religious Community. Karnataka.
↑ Census of India 2001: C-16 City: Population by Mother Tongue (Karnataka), accessed under Tabulations Plan of Census Year - 2001 .

[1] Census of India 2011.

[2] S. Rajendran: Center mum on 'Bengaluru'. The Hindu , December 18, 2007, accessed October 30, 2015 .

[3] Mugdha Variyar: Bangalore, Mysore, Karnataka Other Cities to be Renamed on 1 November. International Business Times, October 18, 2014, accessed October 30, 2015 .

[4] Census of India 2011: C-1 Population By Religious Community. Karnataka.

[5] Census of India 2001: C-16 City: Population by Mother Tongue (Karnataka), accessed under Tabulations Plan of Census Year - 2001 .