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Bellary or Ballari ( Kannada: ಬಳ್ಳಾರಿ Ballari [ bʌɭ ː a ː ri ] ) is a town in the Indian state of Karnataka. With around 410,000 inhabitants ( 2011 census ) Bellary is the eighth largest city in Karnataka. Bellary is located some 300 kilometers north of Bangalore at an altitude of around 450 meters above sea level on the Deccan Plateau in the eastern Zentralkarnataka. At the border of the neighboring Federal States of Andhra Pradesh, there are less than 20 kilometers. The city is the administrative center of the district of Bellary.

In Bellary rises from the otherwise flat surrounding a 602 meter high rock on the summit of which stands a fortress. The fort was built during the Vijayanagar Bellary time of Hanumappa Nayaka, a vassal of the Vijayanagar rulers built. After the fall of the Vijayanagar Empire in 1565 served Hanumappa Nayakas descendants the Sultanate of Bijapur as vassals. To 1678, the famous Maratha King Shivaji occupied the Fort Bellary, put the local rulers but to pay tribute again. 1761 Bellary Basalat Jang, the ruler of Adoni tribute. But the rulers of Bellary refused to pay tribute, whereupon Basalat Jang Bellary besieged and Hyder Ali, the ruler of Mysore asked for support. Hyder Ali conquered and annexed then Bellary. During his reign, the fort was expanded. Bellary remained at Mysore until Hyder Ali's son and successor, Tipu Sultan ceded it in 1792 at Hyderabad. The Nizam of Hyderabad gave Bellary its part, in 1800, to the British, who made ​​it a garrison headquarters and eingliederten in the Madras Presidency. 1840 Bellary became the district capital. When, after the Indian independence in 1953 from the Telugu northern part of the province of Madras, the new state of Andhra was formed, Bellary came because of its predominantly Kannada speaking population of the state of Mysore, who in 1956 umformiert and renamed in 1973 in Karnataka.

In Bellary steel industry is established, which exploits the rich ore deposits of the environment. Through the City of National Highway 63 leads from Ankola on the west coast about Hubli and Guntakal after Gooty in Andhra Pradesh. In parallel, the railway line runs from Hubli to Guntakal. Bellary has two railway stations, Bellary Junction and Bellary Cantonment. The Bellary Airport is currently not in operation.

On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Karnataka in 2006, the state government decided, following a proposal of the writer UR Ananthamurthy to change the English name of 13 cities in Karnataka in its Kannada name forms. This should be renamed in Bellary Ballari. Since the Indian central government to the name change has not yet been approved, the renaming process is not yet complete but.