Shimoga district
The district Shimoga ( Kannada: ಶಿವಮೊಗ್ಗ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ, also: Shivamogga ) is a district of the Indian state of Karnataka. Council is based in the eponymous city of Shimoga.
Geography
The district Shimoga located in the western Zentralkarnataka. Neighboring districts are Haveri in the northeast, Davanagere in the east, Chikmagalur in the south, Udupi Uttara Kannada in the southwest and the northeast. The district Shimoga is divided into seven taluks Bhadravati, Hosanagara, Sagar, Shikarpur, Shimoga, Sorab and Tirthahalli.
The area of the district of Shimoga is 8,481 square kilometers. Here, the district has its part in two scenic metropolitan areas: a smaller part in the east part of the region Maidan, the belonging to Karnataka part of the highlands of the Deccan, and presents itself as a plateau with an average elevation of 600 meters dar. The rest of the district belongs to the mountain region of Malnad and is occupied by the Western Ghats that divide the Deccan to the west coast. The highest mountain is the Kodachadri with 1343 meters. The slopes of the Western Ghats are densely forested. Overall, about a quarter of the district area of forest.
The district Shimoga is crossed by several rivers that flow down from the Western Ghats. When you place Kudali to rivers Tunga and Bhadra join the Tungabhadra, which flows eastward and drained by the Krishna in the Bay of Bengal. The contrast is also formed in the Western Ghats Sharavathi flows west into the Arabian Sea. The Jog Falls, with 253 meters are the highest waterfall in India on its river.
History
The history of the territory, which accounts for the district Shimoga today, can be traced back to the 3rd century BC. At that time it was part of the Mauryan empire. In the 4th century AD, the western part of present-day district Shimoga was ruled by the Kadamba dynasty, the eastern part of the Ganga. After that, the area came under the rule of changing dynasties: The Chalukya in the 6th century, the Rashtrakutas in the 8th century, the Ganga and the Chalukya again in the 10th century and the Hoysala in the 12th century. After the Hoysala Empire had collapsed by an invasion of the Delhi Sultanate in the 14th century, the territory of Shimoga as a large part of South India came a little later under the rule of the Vijayanagar Empire.
The Vijayanagar rulers had used in Keladi in the Shimoga district of today's military governors ( Nayaks ). After the Vijayanagar Empire in 1565 after the crushing defeat by the Deccan sultanates went down in the Battle of Talikota, the Nayaks of Keladi, which initially moved their capital to Ikkeri and then Bidnur made independently. Under the Nayak rulers Sivappa Naik, who in 1645 took over the throne, the Nayaks expanded their dominion over the entire coastal region of present-day Karnataka. His successors ruled the area before Hyder Ali, the ruler of Mysore, 1783 Bednur conquered and the Nayak rule ended.
During the British colonial era Mysore was a nominally independent princely state under British rule in the 19th century. Shimoga became one of the districts of Mysore. After the Indian independence in 1956, the district came in the wake of the States Reorganization Act to the limits of the Kannada language in accordance with the newly created Mysore State ( Karnataka since 1973 ).
Population
According to the Indian census of 2011, the district Shimoga has 1,755,512 inhabitants. Between 2001 and 2011, the population ( 15.7 percent ) grew by 6.9 percent, lower than the average of Karnataka. The population density is 207 inhabitants per square kilometer below the average of the state (319 inhabitants per square kilometer). 35.5 percent of the residents of the district Shimoga live in cities. The degree of urbanization is thus only slightly below the average of Karnataka ( 38.6 per cent). The literacy rate is 80.5 percent higher than the average of the state ( 75.6 percent).
The population of the district of Shimoga place after the 2011 census Hindus with 85.3 per cent majority. In addition, there is a larger minority of Muslims ( 12.2 per cent ) and a small Christian minority (1.6 percent). In addition to Kannada, the main language of Karnataka, is among the Muslim population of the district of Shimoga, as in most parts of Karnataka, the spread Urdu. In Taluk Shimoga Shimoga district of the Urdu has the status of a coordinate official language due to the high proportion of the population of its speakers.