Guntur
| 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 was headquarters of the Guntur District in the Madras presidency during the British period. It was on the Bellary-Bezwada branch of the Southern Mahratta railway.
Spelling variants
Modern name: Guntur
Variants; Guntoor
Cemeteries
- "Old Cemetery" at Guntoor, Hyderabad Residency.
External links
- "Guntur" Wikipedia "(retrieved 4 May 2016)"
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
