Hubli-Dharwad

Hubli-Dharwad
State :	India
State :	Karnataka
District :	Dharwad
Location :	15 ° 25 ′ N , 75 ° 1 ′ E Coordinates: 15 ° 25 ′ N , 75 ° 1 ′ E
Height :	630 m
Area :	200.23 km²
Residents :	943,857 (2011)
Population density :	4714 inhabitants / km²
Website :	www.hdmc.mrc.gov.in
	Karnatak University in Dharwad

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Hubli-Dharwad , since 2014 officially Hubballi-Dharwad ( Kannada : ಹುಬ್ಬಳ್ಳಿ-ಧಾರವಾಡ Hubbaḷḷi-Dhāravāḍa [ ˈhubːʌɭːi ˈd̪ʱaːrʌʋaːɖʌ ]) is a twin city in the Indian state of Karnataka .

With around 944,000 inhabitants (2011 census) it is the second largest city in Karnataka. Hubli-Dharwad was created in 1962 through the merger of the cities of Hubli (also Hubballi ) and Dharwad (also Dharwar ). The city is the administrative seat of the Dharwad District .

location

The sister cities Hubli and Dharwad are located in the northwest of Karnataka 410 kilometers northwest of Bangalore at an altitude of 670 to 760 meters on the western edge of the Dekkan Plateau. Hubli and Dharwad are around 20 kilometers apart.

traffic

Hubli-Dharwad has good transport links: National Highway 4 runs through the city from Chennai via Mangalore and Pune to Mumbai . Hubli is the seat of the South Western Railway , a regional company of Indian Railways . From the airport Hubli with links to Bangalore , Mumbai and Hyderabad .

economy

Hubli is primarily an industrial and trade center and mainly houses textile, leather, paper and tool factories; an IT park was also set up. Dharwad acts mainly as an administrative center and is - as the seat of the Karnatak University and the University of Agricultural Sciences as well as other cultural institutions - an important educational location . Cotton and peanuts are mainly grown in the fields in the area. Dharwad is famous for its dharwad peda , a milk-based carrot .

history

The area around Hubli and Dharwad belonged to the rule of the Chalukyas of Kalyani in the 11th and 12th centuries . In Dharwad there is a fortress, which according to local tradition is said to have been founded after 1403 by a general of the Vijayanagar king named Dhar Rao. In 1573 the Sultanate of Bijapur captured the fortress after a six-month siege. In 1685 the Mughal ruler Aurangzeb took Dharwad. In the late 18th century and early 19th century Dharwad changed hands several times: in 1753 it was conquered by the Marathas , in 1778 by Mysore , before it returned to the Marathas in 1791. As a result of the Third Marathas War (1817-1818) Hubli and Dharwad fell to the British . During the British colonial period, the cities belonged to the Bombay presidency . After Indian independence in 1947, they came to the state of Mysore, which was reorganized after the language borders of Kannada and renamed Karnataka in 1973, through the States Reorganization Act in 1956 .

Chandramouleshwara Temple in Hubli

On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the state in 2006, the government of Karnataka decided, following a proposal by the writer UR Ananthamurthy , to rename the English name Hubli to its Kannada form of name Hubbali . 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.

Attractions

In Hubli itself, as well as in some localities in the near and far surroundings of Hubli-Dharwad, several Hindu temples from the late Chalukya period (11th / 12th centuries, largely unknown in Europe) have been preserved (see web links): Gadag , Lakkundi , Dambala, Annigeri , Itgi , Kuknur, Lakshmeswar, Bankapura, Hirekerur u. a.

literature

Imperial Gazetteer of India. London 1908. Keywords Dhārwār Town (Volume 11, pp. 315-317) and Hubli City (Volume 13, pp. 221-222).

Movie

360 ° geo- reporting. India, the largest school lunch in the world. Documentary, Germany, 2012, 42:53 min., Script and director: Julien Hamelin, production: MedienKontor, arte , Geo , series: 360 ° Geo-Reportage, first broadcast: October 27, 2012 by arte, table of contents with a preview of Geo.

Web links

Commons : Hubli - collection of images, videos and audio files

Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (Engl.)
Kalyani Chalukya Temple (Engl.)
Temple in northern Karnataka (Engl.)

Individual evidence

^ Census of India 2011: Provisional Population Totals. Cities having population 1 lakh and above. (PDF; 154 kB)
^ 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 .

[1] Census of India 2011: Provisional Population Totals. Cities having population 1 lakh and above. (PDF; 154 kB)

[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 .