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== External links == | == External links == | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guntur "Guntur"] ''Wikipedia''. | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guntur "Guntur"] ''Wikipedia''. | ||
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-07/1310868530 post] refers to a burial at the "Old Cemetery" at Guntoor, Hyderabad Residency. | *This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-07/1310868530 post] refers to a burial at the "Old Cemetery" at Guntoor, Hyderabad Residency. | ||
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| Guntur | |
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| Presidency: Madras | |
| Coordinates: | 16.300800°N, 80.442800°E |
| Altitude: | 30 m (98 ft) |
| Present Day Details | |
| Place Name: | Guntur |
| State/Province: | Andhra Pradesh |
| Country: | India |
| Transport links | |
| Southern Mahratta Railway | |
"Guntur, a town and district of British India, in the Madras presidency. The town (pop[ulation] in 1901, 30,833) has a station on the Bellary-Bezwada branch of the Southern Mahratta railway.
Spelling variants
Modern name: Guntur
Variants; Guntoor
External links
- "Guntur" Wikipedia.
- This India List post refers to a burial at the "Old Cemetery" at Guntoor, Hyderabad Residency.
Historical books online
- "The District of Guntoor and Guntoor Town" A Geographical, Statistical, and Historical description of Hindostan, and the Adjacent Counties Volume 2, page 87 by Walter Hamilton 1820 Google Books
- "Guntur Town" Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 12, page 389. "It was apparently founded in the second half of the eighteenth century by the French"
- In 1868 there were French merchants in Guntoor, descendants of families from the past century "The Total Solar Eclipse Of August 1868 Report of M. Janssen" A List Of Anniversaries Of Remarkable Astronomical Discoveries And Occurrences, page 107 by George Walker 1869 Google Books
