Shahapur Taluk Zilla Panchayat Map - OLD

Shahapur is a city and taluka headquarter located in the

Yadgir district Yadgir District is one of the List of districts of Karnataka, 31 districts of Karnataka state in southern India.This district was carved out of Kalaburagi district as the 30th district of Karnataka on 10 April 2010. Yadgir town is the administr ...

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Karnataka Karnataka (; ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a state in the southwestern region of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act. Originally known as Mysore State , it was renamed ''Karnat ...

. Shahapur is 597 km north of

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and well connected by road to

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Yadgir Yadgir is a city and the administrative headquarters of Yadgir district in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is also the administrative headquarters of Yadgir Taluka, one of the six taluks of Yadgir. Geography Yadgir town covers an area ...

(32 km).

Geography

Shahapur is located at . It has an average elevation of 428 metres (1404 feet).

Demographics

As per the 2011 Indian

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, Shahapur had a population of 57,129. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Shahapur has an average literacy rate of 52%, lower than the national average of 65.38% and also lower than the state literacy which is 67%: shahapur male literacy is 61%, and female literacy is 43%. In Shahapur, 16% of the population is under 6 years of age. Shahapur is a Muslim-majority city in Karnataka with 20% Hindus.

About

The Town Municipal Council (TMC) Shahapur was constituted in 1954 and this TMC is upgraded (in 2015) as a (CMC) (City Municipal Council). The CMC has 32 wards and an equal number of councillors. Shahapura CMC stretches to an area of 13.65 km². Summer Temperature as high as 45 -43 degree Celsius and Winter Temp-27 degree Celsius

Name

As per the mythology, the old name of Shahapur was "Sagar". In support of this name there is historical evidence such as the sobriquet of the Vijayanagara Kingdom's last ruler Ramaraya (son-in-law of Srikrishna Devaraya), who was also called "Sagara Sankramanaraya". After the Muslim attack, the name of the city was changed to Nusratabad. As per historians after the attack "Sagar "village is shifted to the other side of the hill line and the original Sagar has been abandoned for some time and was called "Halu Sagar". As time passes and now it is called as "Hali Sagar" means Old Sagar. The area between Krishna and Bhima rivers is called "Sagara Nadu". It consists of Shahapur, Surpur (Shorapur) and Jewargi talukas.

Taluk

The Shahpur Taluka contains thirty-seven

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Climate

Tourism attractions

* Sleeping Buddha Hill, made up of four hills.

References

Tadabidi

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20090827043023/http://shahapuratown.gov.in/

* http://www.bhorukapower.com/shahapur.htm

{{Yadgir district Cities and towns in Yadgir district Taluks in Yadgiri district