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Annigeri It is 30 kms from Hubli. It has a famous
Amriteshwara temple of the time of the Kalyani Chalukyas. It was the birth
place of great Kannada Poet Pampa and there is a Jain basadi of Parshwanatha.
It was once a headquarters of famous rich province of Belvola-300. It was
the capital of Chalukya Someshwara 4.In addition to Veerashaiva Mathas,
there is a ruined Banashankari Temple and seven mosques and also an ancient
Veerabhadra temple.
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Bankapura 80 kms from Dharwad. It was built
by Bankeya. under Chalukya many beautiful temples were raised in
the city including the wonderful Nagareshwara temple in the fort and another
chalukya temple called Siddheshwara.Many temples were destroyed by Ali
Adilshahi in about 1567.
There is a beautiful mosque in the fort. It has Kilari cow breeding
centre and a rabbit breeding centre with its office inside the fort.
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Dambal It is 21 Kms from Gadag. And it is known as
"Dharmapolal" in inscriptions. It was a Buddhist centre. Therec are two
notable chalukyan temple called Doddabasappa Temple and somewshwara Temple.Doddabassapa
as multigonal star shaped Temple Garbhagriha and fine sculpturalo representations
and huge nandi Temple.Someshwara could have been a old bsadi.The Temple
has a 400_year old vast tank.
There is a old ganapathi image in old ruined fort.
And we can also find a huge ganapathi image in a small shrine.
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Hanagal It was the capital of Hangal Kadambas,
feudatories of Chalukyas of Kalyana. It was mentioned as 'Panungal' in
records and identified by tradition with Viratanagara of Mahabharatha days.
It is on the left bank of the Dharma river. The Tarakeshwara temple
here is a huge structure with wonderful series of images and polished tall
Chalukyan pillers. The other temples are Virabhadra, Billeshwara and Ramalinga
etc.There is a famous Veerashaiva Kumaraswamy Matha here.
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Gadag-Betagiri It is a twin city muncipality
and it is 80 kms from Dharward .It is a great centre of Kalyana Chalukya
art with the largeTrikuteshwara temple. It was latter expanded by kalyana
Chalukyas into a vast complex.The complex has triple shrines once
housing Shiva,Brahma and Surya.
The saraswathi temple has the finest shining decorative pillars,and
the saraswathi image, and it is one of the largest example of Chalukyan
art. The place has Someshwara and Rameshwara temples of Chalukyan style.
It has Veeranarayana temple of Chalukyan times. The great Kannada poet
Kumaravyasa composed his famous kannada Bharatha in this temple.Gadag has
a mosque of Adilshahi times and church too.Betageri has many artistic herostones
from 9th and 10th centuries.
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