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