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Karur (Tamil: கரூர் Karūr [ kaɾu ː r] ) is a city in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located in the central inland Tamil Nadu on Amravathi, a tributary of the Kaveri, about 75 kilometers west of Tiruchirappalli, and about 330 kilometers southwest of Chennai, the capital of the state. The city is verkehrlich conveniently at the intersection of the railway line from Tiruchirappalli to Erode and the National Highway 7 located from Bangalore to Kanyakumari. The population is around 71,000 ( 2011 census ). Karur is the administrative headquarters of the district of the same name.

The story Karurs goes far back into antiquity. The early Chera kings ruled in the first centuries AD in a town called Karur or Vanchi. While this was previously often locates further west on the Malabar Coast, have inscriptions and archaeological finds suggest that the Chera capital is identical with the modern Karur. The finds of Roman coins at Karur evidence of trade relations with the Roman Empire. After the decline of the early Chera dynasty in the 3rd or 4th century Karur was built by the Pandya, Pallava and Chola and later ruled by Vijayanagar and Nayaks. In the 18th century Karur came under the control of Tipu Sultan, King of Mysore. In the Second Mysore War, the British conquered Karur 1783 and made ​​it a part of British India.