Gulbarga

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Gulbarga ( Kannada: ಗುಲ್ಬರ್ಗ, Urdu: گلبرگہ; Gulbarga ) or Kalburgi ( Kannada: ಕಲಬುರ್ಗಿ Kalburgi ) is a city in the north of the South Indian state of Karnataka. With around 532,000 inhabitants ( census 2011) it is the fourth largest city of Karnataka. Gulbarga is the capital of the district of Gulbarga.

The usual slang in Gulbarga is Kannada. Under the Muslim population Urdu is widely spoken.

Geography

Gulbarga is located in the Deccan Plateau at 17.34 degrees north latitude and 76.82 degrees east longitude. The city belongs to the state of Karnataka. It is about 180 kilometers in a straight line from Hyderabad in the east, 460 kilometers from Mumbai in the north-west and 490 kilometers from the southern Bangalore.

History

Gulbargas origins date back to the time of the Chalukyas of Kalyani, which until the late 12th century controlled large parts of the Deccan from the 10th. They were followed by the Yadavas.

At the beginning of the 14th century came under the dominion of the Gulbarga Muslim Sultanate of Delhi. 1345 seceded from this, the Bahmani Sultanate, whose capital was Gulbarga in 1347. In the following decades, the town was thus the center of the then most important power in Central India, a center of Islamic culture and education. However, already in 1428 it lost this status in Bidar, which soon surpassed the old capital of gloss. Gulbarga gradually lost its importance.

After the disintegration of the Bahmani sultanate, the city came to Bidar in 1492, one of the five Deccan sultanates - that emerged from the realm of Bahmaniden. 1520 was the Hindu Vijayanagar empire, the city and destroyed large parts. 1609 Gulbarga passed into the possession of the more powerful Sultanate of Bijapur, Bidar had the subject.

1686 conquered Mughal emperor Aurangzeb Bijapur and thus Gulbarga, but already in 1724 the city got again the gentlemen, as Asaf Jah I. in of its managed province of the Deccan, which was an independent state as Hyderabad later de facto.

1956, the State of Hyderabad was dissolved and Gulbarga, Karnataka since 1973, associated with the re-ordered by language barriers Mysore State. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the state in 2006, the Government of Karnataka decided after a suggestion of the writer UR Ananthamurthy to rename Gulbarga in Kalburgi. Since the Indian central government to the name change has not yet been approved, the renaming process is not yet complete but.

Attractions

Gulbarga was removed and attached to the time of Bahmaniden. Of which still bear witness to the thick city walls and the wide moat of the now greatly ruined fortress with 15 towers.

Gulbargas greatest interest is located within the fortress Jama Masjid (Friday Mosque), which was completed in 1367. Its design is considered unique in India because the courtyard was completely covered with domes, similar to the Great Mosque of Cordoba in Spain. In addition to the main dome is the construction of four Eckkuppeln and a total of 75 smaller decorated.

Also located in Gulbarga, the domed tombs of several Bahmani sultans as well as the tomb of the famous Muslim saint Sayyid Husayn Bandanawaz Gisudaraz, who had come to the city in 1413.

Economy and infrastructure

The main town was, as was made in the 1870s, the branch between the Great Indian Peninsula Railway and Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway, the railway junction. The district Gulbarga is still heavily agricultural and therefore one of the most underdeveloped areas of Karnataka. The city itself, however, has for some years on a remarkable economic growth. The main industries are cement production, textile and leather industry. Tourism is still a less important role in the future but could benefit from the relatively good transport connections, Gulbarga on one of the most important railway lines in the country, from Mumbai to Bangalore, is located. An airport and a software park are planned.

Gulbarga is the seat of a university.