Belgaum district
The district Belgaum ( Kannada: ಬೆಳಗಾವಿ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ ) is a district in the Indian state of Karnataka. Council is based in the eponymous city of Belgaum ( Belgaum).
Geography
The district Belgaum is in the northwest of Karnataka on the border with the neighboring states of Maharashtra and Goa. Neighboring districts are Bijapur and Bagalkot in the east, in the southeast of Gadag, Dharwad and Uttara Kannada in the south (all Karnataka ), as well as in Goa North Goa in the west and Sindhudurg in Maharashtra Kolhapur and Sangli in the northwest and the north.
With an area of 13,415 square kilometers Belgaum district is the largest district of Karnataka. The district area is part of the Deccan Plateau and arises largely as a plateau with an average altitude of 600 to 700 meters above sea level is, which is broken here and there by hills. In the west, on the border of Goa Belgaum district participates in the mountains of the Western Ghats. The main rivers in the district area are the Krishna and its tributaries Ghataprabha and Malaprabha. All three originate in the Western Ghats and flows in an easterly direction through the district Belgaum. The Ghataprabha overcomes the 52 -meter-high Gokak Falls at Gokak. To the west of the Mandovi, which rises in Belgaum district and empties into the Arabian Sea in Goa flows.
The district Belgaum is divided into the ten taluks Chikodi, Athni, Raybag, Gokak, Hukeri, Belgaum, Khanapur, Sampgaon, Parasgad and Ramdurg.
History
The area of Belgaum was in the course of its history under the rule of various dynasties: In the 12th century, the dynasty of the Ratta Belgaum established as their capital in the 13th century conquered the Yadava the city. In the 14th and 15th century, the area was successively ruled by the Sultanate of Delhi, the Vijayanagara Empire, the Bahmaniden and the Sultanate of Bijapur. In the late 17th century Bijapur came to the Mughal Empire, before it was conquered in the early 18th century by the Marathas. In the Third Marathenkrieg Belgaum finally came in 1818 under British rule. The British annexed the territory in the province of Bombay. Initially the area belonged to the district of Dharwad, before 1836 formed from the northern part of the district of Belgaum. Some of the Mahratta kingdoms remained nominally independent but as princely states exist under British suzerainty. Within the district of Belgaum there were the princely state Ramdurg and numerous fragmented enclaves of Kolhapur, Sangli, Miraj and Kurundwad.
After the Indian independence in 1947, the district Belgaum came to the state of Bombay. The princely states were slightly dissolved and incorporated their enclaves in the district of Belgaum. As the Indian states were reorganized in 1956 by the language barrier, the membership of District Belgaum developed for issue. Of the eleven taluks of the district were at the time three predominantly marathisprachig. In the district capital Belgaum presented Marathi speakers a little more than half the population. In the remaining eight taluks Kannada was the dominant language. Ultimately, the district Belgaum came by the States Reorganisation Act for kannadasprachigen Mysore State (1973 renamed Karnataka ). Only the Taluk Chandgad, in the Marathi - speakers accounted for more than 90 percent of the population, was added to the district Kolhapur and in the marathisprachigen State of Bombay ( Maharashtra 1960 ) incorporated. Maharashtra raises but to this day claim to the district Belgaum.
Population
According to the Indian census of 2011, the district Belgaum has 4,778,439 inhabitants. He is measured by the number of inhabitants to Bangalore Urban district of Karnataka is the second largest. Between 2001 and 2011 the population grew by 13.4 percent. The population growth is slightly lower than the average of Karnataka ( 15.7 per cent). The population density is 356 inhabitants per square kilometer above the average of the state (319 inhabitants per square kilometer). 25.3 percent of the residents of District Belgaum live in cities. The degree of urbanization is below the average of Karnataka ( 38.6 per cent). The literacy rate is at 73.9 percent slightly lower than the average of the state ( 75.6 percent).
The population of the district of Belgaum place after the 2001 census, Hindus 84.6 percent, the clear majority. Muslims make up 10.5 percent of the district population. In addition, there is an exceptionally large Jain minority of 4.0 percent. In addition to the speakers of Kannada, the main language of Karnataka, there are in the district of Belgaum a large number of Marathi - speakers. Among the Muslims is also, as in most parts of Karnataka, the spread Urdu.