Chamarajanagar
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Chamarajanagara is a city and headquarter of eponymous Chamarajanagar district in the Karnataka state of India. It is named after Chamaraja Wodeyar IX, the erstwhile Raja of Mysore, Chamarajanagara was previously known as 'Arikottara'.
Key facts
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- Chamarajanagar
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- City
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- Tirupati_Passenger_train_in_Chamarajanagar_Railway_Station.jpg
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- yes
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- 6
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- Chamarajanagara in Karnataka
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- Country
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- State
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- Karnataka
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- District
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- Chamarajanagar
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- Tirupati_Passenger_train_in_Chamarajanagar_Railway_Station.jpg
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- Chamarajanagar Railway Station
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- Chamaraja Wodeyar IX
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- Municipal Council
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- Metric
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- 18.75
- Settlement.area_rural_km2
- 1210
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Chamarajanagara is a city and headquarter of eponymous Chamarajanagar district in the Karnataka state of India. It is named after Chamaraja Wodeyar IX, the erstwhile Raja of Mysore, Chamarajanagara was previously known as 'Arikottara'.
== History == While the area was previously known as 'Sri Arikottara', the area was later named after Chamaraja Wodeyar, the Wodeyar of Mysore who was born here. The Vijaya Parsvanath Basadi, a holy jain shrine was constructed by Punisadandanayaka, the commander of the Hoysala king Gangaraja in the year 1117 AD.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chamarajanagar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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