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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 834 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HALEBID  , a

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village in
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Mysore
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state,
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southern
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India; pop . (1901), 1524 . The name means " old
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capital," being the site of Dorasamudra, the capital of the Hoysala
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dynasty founded
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early in the 11th
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century . In 1310 and again in 1326 it was taken and plundered by the first
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Mahommedan invader of southern India . Two temples, still
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standing, though never completed and greatly ruined, are regarded as the finest examples of the elaborately carved Chalukyan
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style of
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architecture .

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