Why visit Gooty
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About Gooty
Gooty ( GUUTH-ee; Telugu: గుత్తి, transliterated as Guththi) is a town in Anantapur district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is the headquarters of Gooty mandal in Anantapur revenue division. The town is renowned for the Gooty hill fort.
From the Wikipedia article Gooty (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History
Eight inscriptions have been found on the rocks close to the Narasimha temple located within the fort premises. These inscriptions are seriously damaged, but appear to be from the reign of the Western Chalukya king Vikramaditya VI (r. c. 1076–1126 CE).The earliest of the existing fortifications and other structures can be dated to the late Chalukya period.
The fort later came under the control of the Vijayanagara Empire. During the reign of Venkata II (r. c. 1584–1614), the Vijayanagara lost the fort to the Qutb Shahi dynasty. The Mughals appear to have controlled the fort after their conquest of the Qutb Shahi capital Golconda. Around 1746 CE, the Maratha general Murari Rao captured the fort, and made it his permanent residence eight years later. He repaired the fort, and commissioned the stucco ornamentation of the small gateways.
In 1775 CE, the Mysore ruler Hyder Ali attacked and besieged the fort. After two months, Murari Rao was forced to surrender, as he ran out of water supplies. The fort later came under the control of the East India Company. Its administrator Thomas Munro was buried at the cemetery located at the foothill.
From the History section of Gooty on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Getting there and nearby towns
Bellary Airport (BEP) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 81 km away.
- Guntakal 30 km west, about 30 min by car
- Rāmāpuram 31 km northeast, about 31 min by car
- Dhone 40 km northeast, about 40 min by car
- Thummalamenta 43 km east, about 43 min by car
- Uravakonda 45 km southwest, about 45 min by car
- Tadpatri 46 km southeast, about 46 min by car
- Nārāyanapuram 47 km south, about 47 min by car
- Anantapur 49 km south, about 49 min by car
- Ballari 77 km west, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Kurnool 90 km northeast, about 1 h 30 min by car
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- Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): overview and history text
Photo credits
- Entrance of gooty port, A SIVA RAMA KRISHNA, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Gooty Fort From Top, Imrx100, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Gooty Trek start view, Sudheendrasp1, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Top view from Gooty fort, Sudheendrasp1, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Gooty Railway Station, Goutam1962, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Gooty Fort, Imrx100, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Railway High School, Imrx100, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Jonnagiri Erragudi Yerragudi Asoka Inscription site, NH 44, Andhra Pradesh India, Ms Sarah Welch, CC0
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