Solapur

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Solapur
सोलापूर
Solapur (India)
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State : IndiaIndia India
State : Maharashtra
District : Solapur
Location : 17 ° 40 ′  N , 75 ° 54 ′  E Coordinates: 17 ° 40 ′  N , 75 ° 54 ′  E
Height : 475 m
Area : 300 km²
Residents : 951,558 (2011)
Population density : 3172 inhabitants / km²
Website : Solapur

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Solapur ( Marathi सोलापूर IAST Solāpūr ; formerly Sholapore ) is a city ​​of millions in the west Indian state of Maharashtra .

location

Solapur is located on the Dekkan Plateau in the south of Maharashtra, only around 20 km north of the border with the state of Karnataka at an altitude of around 475 m above sea level. d. M. The city is an important traffic junction between North and South India and has a commercial airport for national flights. The distance from Mumbai is around 400 km (driving distance); to Bangalore it is about 620 km. The climate is warm; Rain falls almost exclusively in the monsoon months from June to October.

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Fort of Solapur on Siddheshwar Lake

population

Official population statistics have only been kept and published since 1991.

year 1991 2001 2011
Residents 604.215 872.478 951.558

Almost 76% of the majority of the Marathi , Kannada and Urdu- speaking population are Hindus , around 20.5% are Muslims and around 1% each belong to the Jain and Christian religious groups ; other religions such as Sikhs , Buddhists etc. form numerically small minorities. The male share of the population is around 10,000 people higher than the female.

economy

Crafts, industry, regional trade and the service sector are concentrated in the metropolis . The textile industry and automotive suppliers play the most important roles in the industrial sector, but Solapur is also known in India for the bidi cigarettes produced here . The first Indian waste incineration plant for power generation is located just outside the city.

history

The history of Solapur is only known in broad outline. In the Middle Ages, the city was successively ruled by the Hindu Andhrabhratyas, Chalukyas , Rashtrakutas and Yadavas ; From around 1345 to 1490, the Muslim Bahmani Sultanate of Gulbarga or Bidar exercised rulership, which was then divided between the Dekkan sultanates - Solapur belonged to the Sultanate of Bijapur . Under the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb rule was occupied over the city in 1586 by the Mughal Empire, which, however, always new attacks of the Marathas was facing. From 1761 to 1799, the quasi independently acting Mysore generals Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan occupied power, which subsequently passed to the British . In the 1930s, Solapur played an important role in the Indian struggle for independence.

Attractions

Mosque in the fort

Overall, Solapur is rather poor in historically or culturally significant sights:

  • The temple of the same name stands on an island in Siddheswar Lake , and its significance extends far beyond the city limits.
  • On the shore of the lake are the ruins of the Bhuikot Fort , possibly built in the 14th century , in which there is a mosque created by Hindu stonemasons . The extensive area is now home to an amusement park, which also includes an animal park.
  • The building of today's Municipal Corporation , built by the British in the Indian colonial style with narrow balconies ( jharokhas ) and corner pavilions ( chhatris ), dates from the beginning of the 20th century .
  • Attached to the university is a science museum, which presents a variety of prehistoric artifacts, medieval coins, sculptures and fragments collected in the area on private initiative.

Personalities

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Solapur . Census 2011
  2. ↑ Solapur - map with altitude information
  3. ↑ Solapur - climate tables
  4. ↑ Solapur - City Population 1991–2011
  5. ↑ Solapur . Census 2011