Basavakalyan

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Basavakalyan is a historic town in Karnataka, India, renowned as a former capital of the Western Chalukya Empire and an important center of Basavanna’s 12th-century social and religious reform movement.

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Basavakalyan canonical 8
Basavakalyana 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historic town
town
associatedWithDynasty Western Chalukya dynasty
linked to: Chalukya of Kalyani
associatedWithLiterature Vachana literature
associatedWithPerson Akka Mahadevi
Allama Prabhu
Basavanna
Channabasavanna
associatedWithRuler Someshvara I
Someshvara II
Vikramaditya VI
country India
culturalRegion Deccan
linked to: Deccan region
formerName Basavakalyana
linked to: Basavakalyan

Kalyani
governingBody Basavakalyan City Municipal Council
hasHeritageSite Anubhava Mantapa (modern complex)
linked to: Anubhava Mantapa

Basavakalyan Fort
hasHistoricalName Kalyani
hasNearbyCity Bidar
Humnabad
Kalaburagi
hasReligiousInstitution Lingayat mathas
linked to: Siddaganga Matha
hasStructure fortified hill with stone walls (Basavakalyan Fort)
linked to: Basavakalyan Fort
historicalEra medieval India
historicalImportance seat of Western Chalukya administration
historicalRole capital of the Western Chalukya Empire
knownFor Basavanna’s 12th-century social reform movement
Lingayat movement
linked to: Lingayatism

Virashaiva religious reforms
language Kannada
locatedIn Bidar district
Karnataka
locatedInRegion Kalyana-Karnataka
locatedInState Karnataka
movementCenter social equality movement led by Basavanna
officialLanguage Kannada
partOf India
regionType urban settlement
religiousSignificance center of 12th-century bhakti movement in Karnataka
major center of Lingayatism
timeZone IST
transportConnection connected by road to Bidar
connected by road to Gulbarga (Kalaburagi)
connected by road to Hyderabad
utcOffset +05:30

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Kalyana Karnataka hasHistoricalSite Basavakalyan
Western Chalukya period capital Basavakalyan
Kalyana (Basavakalyan) currentName Basavakalyan
Kalyana (Basavakalyan) regionallyKnownAs Basavakalyana
linked to: Basavakalyan
Northwestern Karnataka hasHistoricalSite Basavakalyan
subject linked to: northwestern Karnataka
Basavakalyan formerName Basavakalyana
linked to: Basavakalyan
Basavakalyan Fort locatedIn Basavakalyan
Basavakalyan Fort namedAfter Basavakalyan
Taila II associatedCity Basavakalyan
Kalyani (Basavakalyan) currentName Basavakalyan