
Dharanikota
Sign in to saveDharanikota is a village in Palnadu district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is the site of ancient Dhanyakataka, which was the capital of the Satavahana dynasty that ruled in the Deccan around the 1st to 3rd centuries CE.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Dharanikota
- Settlement.other_name
- Dhanyakatakam
- Settlement.nickname
- Dhannakada
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- State bank of India and Residential areas in Dharanikota.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Residential area in Dharanikota
- Settlement.mapframe
- yes
- Settlement.mapframe zoom
- 14
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India#India Andhra Pradesh
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- yes
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Andhra Pradesh, India
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- India
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Andhra Pradesh
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Palnadu
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village in India
- Country
- India
- Continent
- Asia
- Official language
- Telugu
- Population
- 7029
- Area
- 3548
- Elevation
- 8
- Image
- State bank of India and Residential areas in Dharanikota.jpg
- Households
- 1661
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- male population
- 3606
- female population
- 3423
- postal code
- 522020
- Commons category
- Dharanikota
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Dharanikota is a village in Palnadu district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is the site of ancient Dhanyakataka, which was the capital of the Satavahana dynasty that ruled in the Deccan around the 1st to 3rd centuries CE.
Dharanikota is located in Amaravathi mandal of Sattenapalli revenue division. The village forms a part of Andhra Pradesh Capital Region, under the jurisdiction of APCRDA.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dharanikota” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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