City in Karnataka, India
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Raichur is a city of 232,000 people (2011) in Northern Karnataka.
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A hill fort surrounded on three sides by a double row of low circuit walls. It was built without the any cementing material. The inner wall has two gateways: the Sailani Darwaza on the west and the Sikandari Darwaza on the east. The outer fortifications contain five gateways: Mecca Darwaza on the west, the Naumngi Darwaza on the north, the Kati Darwaza on the east, the Khanrlak Darwaza on the south and the Doddi Darwaza on the south-west. Inside the fort, there are old buildings and mosques of considerable archaeological interest, several of them containing inscriptions commemorating their erection during the later Bahmani and the Adil Shahi periods.
A town 5 km from Raichur city, known for its historically important fort, Vishnu temple, two life size elephants carved in white granite and other monuments
Raichur is well connected by road and railways. It is around 450 km from Bengaluru, state capital, and 200 km from Hyderabad.
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