English
Kanakagiri
Sign in to saveKanakagiri (also known as Suvarnagiri) is a town in Karnataka state of India. It was a provincial capital of the Mauryan Empire and later became the capital of the Nayaka dynasty who were the Palegars (feudatory) of the Vijayanagara Empire. It is also the site of the historical site Kanakachalapathi Temple (Kanakachalapathi Mandir) which was built by the Nayakas.
In the Vinony graph
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony's link graph records 309 inbound references to Kanakagiri, and connects out to Gadag-Betageri, Shringeri and Lakshmeshwara.
It is catalogued under topics including Cities and towns in Koppal district, Hindu temples in Koppal district and Taluks in Koppal district.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Weather now
cached 2135h ago7-day forecast
via Open-Meteo
Place details
- Locality
- Chikkamadinala
- Region
- Karnataka
- Country
- India
- Population
- 0
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Koppal
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Image
- View of Kanakachalapathi temple at Kanakagiri in the Koppal district.JPG
Show 1 more fact
- postal code
- 583283
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~2 min read
Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Temple
- Fort
- Utsav
- Gallery
- See also
- References
Kanakagiri (also known as Suvarnagiri) is a town in Karnataka state of India. It was a provincial capital of the Mauryan Empire and later became the capital of the Nayaka dynasty who were the Palegars (feudatory) of the Vijayanagara Empire. It is also the site of the historical site Kanakachalapathi Temple (Kanakachalapathi Mandir) which was built by the Nayakas.
== Geography == Kanakagiri is situated in Koppal district, 20 km northwest of the town of Gangavati in the Indian state of Karnataka.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kanakagiri” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations