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Venkatagiri estate

Venkatagiri Estate
వేంకటగిరి
Zamindari of British India
1600–1949

Coat of arms of Venkatagiri

Coat of arms

History
 •  Established 1600
 •  Abolition of the estate 7 September 1949
Area
 •  1901 4,103.34 km2(1,584 sq mi)
Population
 •  1901 60,861 
Density 14.8 /km2  (38.4 /sq mi)
Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

Coat of arms of Venkatagiri

Coat of arms

The estate of Venkatagiri was an estate in the erstwhile Madras Presidency. It was located in the Nellore district of the present-day Andhra Pradesh. The town of Venkatagiri was the administrative headquarters.

Founded by Velugoti Rayudappa Nayani in 1600. The State endured until it was notified and taken over by the State on 7 September 1949, under the Madras Estates (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1948 (Act 26 of 1948).

[1] https://books.google.co.in/books/about/A_family_history_of_Venkatagiri_Rajas.html?id=8wW1AAAAIAAJ

Coordinates: 13°58′N 79°35′E / 13.967°N 79.583°E / 13.967; 79.583


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