Itagi is a village in the southern 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 ...
,
India
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. It is located in the
Rona taluk
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of
Gadag district
Gadag district is a List of districts in Karnataka, district in the state of Karnataka, India. It was formed in 1997, when it was split from Dharwad district. As of 2011, it had a population of 1064570 (of which 35.21 percent was urban). The ov ...
in Karnataka. As per census survey of 2011, its location code number is 601951.
History
Itagi is the site of Narayan Swami temple. This temple was built in the 12th century and houses a tall Narayan Swami statue. Itagi has a lake, Itagi Lake, which is 56 acres in area. Itagi also has the oldest Demmavva or Gramdevi temple and Shri Kalameshwar temples. A Paraswanath Jain temple was constructed recently and totally constructed in stone. It has two masjids.
Demographics
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 ...
, Itagi had a population of 8331 with 4223 males and 4108 females.
[Village code= 78100 ]
It is a fast-developing village. It is the largest Gram Panchayat village in Belgaum.
See also
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Belgaum
Belgaum (Kannada ISO 15919, ISO: ''Bēḷagāma'', ), officially known as Belagavi (also Belgaon), is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka located near its northern western border in the Western Ghats. It is the administrative headquarters ...
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Districts of Karnataka
The southern Indian state of Karnataka consists of 31 districts grouped into 4 administrative divisions, ''viz''., Belagavi, Bengaluru
, Gulbarga, and Mysore. Geographically, the state has three principal variants: the western coastal stretc ...
References
External links
* http://Belgaum.nic.in/
Villages in Belagavi district
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