Bagalkot district
The district Bagalkot ( Kannada: ಬಾಗಲಕೋಟೆ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ, also Bagalkote ) is a district of the Indian state of Karnataka. Council is based in the eponymous city of Bagalkot.
Geography
The district Bagalkot is located in northern Karnataka. Neighboring districts are Belgaum in the west, in the north of Bijapur, Raichur in the east, in the southeast Koppal and Gadag in the south.
The area of the district of Bagalkot is 6,565 square kilometers. The district area is part of the Deccan Plateau and has an average elevation of 550 meters above the sea level. In the north of the Krishna River forms the border of the district. Located just outside the district Bijapur Krishna is dammed by the Almatti dam to a reservoir. Furthermore, flow through the district area, the two Krishna and Malaprabha flows Ghataprabha.
The district Bagalkot is divided into six taluks Jamkhandi, Bilgi, Mudhol, Badami, Bagalkot and Mungund.
History
The area of present-day Bagalkot district was between the 6th and 8th centuries, the heartland of the early Chalukya Empire. The first capital was Aihole, before the capital was by Vatapi, today Badami, routed mid-6th century. The last capital was finally at the end of the 7th century Pattadakal. 754 was the kingdom by the Rashtrakutas, former vassals of the North, defeated. Subsequently, the area was under the rule of many changing dynasties.
1818 was the area now Bagalkot district as a result of the Third Marathenkrieges under British rule. It was incorporated as part of the district of Bijapur in the Province of Bombay. Some of the Mahratta kingdoms remained nominally independent but as princely states exist under British suzerainty. In the area of present-day Bagalkot district, the princely states were Jamkhandi and Mudhol. When, after the Indian independence the states were re-formed by the States Reorganisation Act by the language barrier, the area came in 1956 to the State of Mysore kannadasprachigen (1973 renamed Karnataka ). As an independent district of Bagalkot district was dissolved in 1997 from the district of Bijapur.
Population
According to the Indian census of 2011, the District Bagalkot has 1,890,826 inhabitants. Between 2001 and 2011 the population grew by 13.4 percent, slightly lower than the average of Karnataka ( 15.7 per cent). The population density is 288 inhabitants per square kilometer below the average of the state (319 inhabitants per square kilometer). 31.7 percent of the residents of the district Bagalkot live in cities. The literacy rate is 69.4 percent below average (the mean of Karnataka is 75.6 percent).
The population of the district of Bagalkot make Hindus according to the 2001 census, 86.2 percent majority. In addition, there is a greater Muslim minority of 11.1 percent and a smaller minority of Jains (1.4 percent).
Attractions
As a center of early Chalukya kingdom of Bagalkot district is rich in monuments from that era. In the former Chalukya capitals Aihole, Badami and Pattadakal and the City Mahakuta that deals are all just a few kilometers in the district of Bagalkot, numerous temples found from the 6th to 8th centuries. The Chalukya temples in Bagalkot district are among the most important of the early Indian stone temples and have been relevant for the further development of the Indian temple building. The temple complex of Pattadakal counts since 1987 as a World Heritage Site by Unesco.
Less of an architectural and religious significance, however, is the location at the confluence of the rivers Krishna and Malaprabha temple complex of Kudalasangama. Here is the tomb ( Samadhi ) of Basava, who founded the Lingayat or Virashaiva sect in the 12th century. Therefore Kudalasangama is an important place of pilgrimage for the followers of this faith.