Huliyurdurga is a village in the state of

Karnataka Karnataka ( ) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed as Mysore State on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, States Re ...

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.Village code= 1696600 Huliyurdurga, Tumkur, Karnataka It is located in the

Kunigal Kunigal is a town in Tumakuru district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of Karnataka. It is the headquarters of Kunigal taluk. As of 2011 census, the town has a population of 34155. Kunigal is famous for stud farm established ...

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Tumakuru district Tumakuru district is an administrative district in the state of Karnataka in India. It is the second largest district in Karnataka by land area with an area of 10,598 km2, and fourth largest by Population. It is a one-and-a-half-hour drive fro ...

of Karnataka.

Demographics

As of 2011 India

census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

, Huliyurdurga had a population of 7989 with 4034 males and 3955 females.

Geography

Huliyurdurga is: * 60 km south of

Tumkur Tumkur, officially Tumakuru, is a city and headquarters of Tumakuru district in the Karnataka state of India. Tumkur is known for Siddaganga Matha. Tumkur hosts India's first mega food park, a project of the ministry of food processing. The Ind ...

, * 22 km south of

and * 30 km from

Ramanagara Ramanagara is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is also the headquarters of the Bengaluru South District. It is approximately 50 kilometres from Bangalore. There are buses and trains as public transportations which approximately take ...

. It is now the headquarters of the

hobli A hobli, nad or mágani is a cluster of adjoining villages administered together for tax and land tenure purposes in the states of Karnataka India. This clustering of villages was formed mainly to streamline the collection of taxes and maintenan ...

of the same name. It was the headquarters of the

of the same name till 1873. It is situated at the foot of the hill of the same name. The Huliyurdurga hill is shaped like an inverted cup. The fort on the hill is 845 meters above mean sea level and is said to have been erected by

Kempe Gowda Kempe Gowda I (27 June 1510 – 1569) locally venerated as Nadaprabhu Kempe Gowda, or commonly known as Kempe Gowda, was a governor under the Vijayanagara Empire in early-modern India. He is famous for the development of Bengaluru Pete in th ...

, the

Magadi Magadi is a town and taluk located in Bengaluru South District , Karnataka, India. History As per a legend, Magadi was founded in 1139 by a Chola king, who, in the course of an expedition, heard that in early times it had been the residence ...

chief. The fort has ruins of: * Springs, * Houses, *

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magazines, * Granaries, * A

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and other structures (remains of). A temple close to this hill is said to have been built by 'Chikkadevaraya Wodeyar'. It has carved granite pillars in the Navaranga. The temple of Mallikarjuna is situated on the summit of Hemagiri hill, which is beside Huliyurdurga. A shrine of Varadaraja, locally known as Hemagiriyappa, where the object of worship is a round stone, is on the eastern slope of Hemagiri. The southern slope has a shrine of

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. Hemagiri hill is higher than Huliyurdurga but has no fort.

Gallery

HuliyurDurgaHill_1.jpg, Kumbi Betta - A view from Hemagiri HuliyoorDurga2.jpg, Ruins of fort on top of Kumbi Betta HuliyoorDurga3.jpg, A view of Hemagiri Hill from Kumbi Betta HuliyoorDurga4.jpg, A View of Huliyur Durga City from top of Kumbi Betta HuliyoorDurga-Hemagiri5.jpg, Hemagiri Hill

References

3.Karnataka State Gazetteer 1983.

External links

* http://Tumkur.nic.in/ Villages in Tumakuru district Forts in Karnataka Buildings and structures in Tumakuru district Hills of Karnataka {{Tumkur-geo-stub

Demographics

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