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ELLORE

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 294 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ELLORE  , a

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town of
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British India, in the Kistna
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district of
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Madras, on the East Coast railway, 303 M. from Madras . Pop . (1901) 33,521 . The two canal systems of the
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Godavari and the Kistna deltas meet here . There are manufactures of cotton and saltpetre, and an important Church of England high school . Ellore was formerly a military station, and the capital of the
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Northern Circars . At Pedda Vegi to the north of it are extensive ruins, which are believed to be remains of the Buddhist
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kingdom of Vengi . From these the Mahommedans, after their
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conquest of the district in 1470, obtained material for
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building a fort at Ellore .

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