Tiruppattur
Sign in to saveTirupathur or Tirupattur is the headquarters of Tirupathur district in the state of Tamil Nadu in India and is one of the oldest inhabited places in the state, with a history of over 1,600 years. The town is known for an abundance of sandalwood in the surrounding hills. It is located about from Vellore, from Hosur, from Dharmapuri, from Krishnagiri, from Thiruvannamalai, from coimbatore , from Chennai, and from Bangalore.
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Place details
- Locality
- Pudukottai
- Region
- Tamil Nadu
- Country
- India
- Population
- 64,125
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Tirupathur
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- Tamil
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- yelagiri.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- View from Yelagiri hill station
- Settlement.nickname
- Sandal City
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Tamil Nadu
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Tamil Nadu, India
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- India
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Tamil Nadu
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Tirupattur
- Settlement.government_type
- Municipal
- Settlement.governing_body
- Tirupathur Municipality
- Settlement.leader_title
- Chairman
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Tirupattur district
- Elevation
- 387
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Official website
- municipality.tn.gov.in/thirupathur
- Image
- Yelagiri.jpg
- Dialing code
- 04179
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- postal code
- 635601
- Commons category
- Tirupathur
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Tirupathur or Tirupattur is the headquarters of Tirupathur district in the state of Tamil Nadu in India and is one of the oldest inhabited places in the state, with a history of over 1,600 years. The town is known for an abundance of sandalwood in the surrounding hills. It is located about from Vellore, from Hosur, from Dharmapuri, from Krishnagiri, from Thiruvannamalai, from coimbatore , from Chennai, and from Bangalore.
==History== From inscriptions surveyed by the Archaeological Survey of India in Tirupathur, it is estimated that the town is more than 1,600 years old. Under the Chola, Vijayanagara, and Hoysala dynasties, the town was variously called Sri Mathava Chaturvedi Mangalam, Veera Narayana Chaturvedi Mangalam, Tiruperur, Brahmapuram and Brahmeeswaram.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tiruppattur” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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