Awantipora
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Awantipora () or Avantipur or Aavantipur, known as Woontpor () in Kashmiri, is a town, just opposite of Pulwama city, on the banks of the river Jhelum in the Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Awantipora
- Settlement.native_name
- Woontpor
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ks
- Settlement.other_name
- Avantipur, Awantipur, Aavantipur
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Avantipura_ruins.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Remains of Avantiswami Temple
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- India Jammu and Kashmir#India
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- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Jammu and Kashmir, India
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Union territory
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Pulwama
- Settlement.named_for
- Raja Avantivarman
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 1582
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Demographics
- Villages in awantipora tehsil
- IUST Awantipora
- AIIMS Awantipora
- Air force station
- See also
- External links
- References
Awantipora () or Avantipur or Aavantipur, known as Woontpor () in Kashmiri, is a town, just opposite of Pulwama city, on the banks of the river Jhelum in the Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
It is on the Jammu–Srinagar National Highway (now called the NH 44), south of Srinagar and north of Anantnag. Awantipora is a subdistrict of Pulwama district.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Awantipora” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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