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Anantapur is city and district in the southwest of the the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, on the border of the state of Karnataka. Anantapur is home to Sri Krishnadevaraya University.
Anantapur District
Area 19,130 sq km, population 3,183,814 (1991 census). Anantapur District is bounded on the north by Kurnool District, on the east by Cuddapah District, on the southeast by Chittoor District, and on the southwest and west by Karnataka state.
Anantapur District was constituted in 1882 out of the unwieldy district of Bellary. Its northern and central portions are a high plateau, generally undulating, with large granite rocks or low hill ranges rising here and there above its surface. In the southern portion of the district the surface is more hilly, the plateau there rising to 2600 ft. above the sea. There is a remarkable fortress rock at Gooty, 2171 ft. above the sea, and a similar but larger rock at Penukonda, with an elevation equal to that of Bangalore, about 3100 ft. Gooty fortress was a stronghold of the Marathas, but was taken from them by Hyder Ali. In 1789 it was ceded by Tipu Sultan to the Nizam of Hyderabad, and in 1800 the Nizam ceded the district of Anantapur with others to the British in payment for a subsidiary British force.
Places of interest include Alur, Anantapur (town), Chitrachedu, Dharmavaram, Enumaladoddi, Gooty, Lepakshi, Puttaparthi, and Rayadurg.
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