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31 unusual facts about Andhra Pradesh


Anant Laxman Kanhere

He completed his primary education in Nizamabad (which was then also called as Indur ), and his English education took place in Aurangabad.

Andhra Pradesh cricket team

The team's home ground is the APCA-VDCA Stadium at Visakhapatnam, but some of their home matches are also played at Vijayawada and Anantapur.

Andhra Pradesh Secretariat

Andhra Pradesh Secretariat is the office of the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and his ministers.

Avadhanam

Rallabandi Kavita Prasad - (Director, Dept of Culture, Govt of Andhra Pradesh, presently posted as secretary, Dharma Prachara Parishad (DPP), in TTD, Tirupati) has performed more than 500 avadhanams, including satavadhanam and dvisatavadhanam.

Buddha images in Thailand

Much of the basis for the Buddhist artwork of the Dvaravati period was influence from Buddhist art in India, including the Amaravati and Gupta styles, although there was also local and Khmer influence.

Budugu

"Budugu" is a pet name for the child and was later used for a whole generation of children in Andhra Pradesh.

Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University

Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University (DSNLU) is a Law University located at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India offering integrated B.A. LLB.

Emani Sankara Sastry

Emani Sankara Sastry was born on September 23, 1922 in Draksharama, Andhra Pradesh.

Gandhi Bhavan, Hyderabad

Gandhi Bhavan is the headquarters of the Indian National Congress Party in Andhra Pradesh.

Garimella Satyanarayana

Garimella Satyanarayana (Telugu: గరిమెళ్ళ సత్యనారాయణ) (1893 – December 18, 1952) was a Poet and Freedom Fighter of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Himayatnagar

Himayatnagar, Andhra Pradesh: A village of Rangareddy District in Andhra Pradesh, India

Indian wine

Some of India's larger wine producing areas are located in Maharashtra, Karnataka near Bangalore and Andhra Pradesh near Hyderabad.

Indira Gandhi Zoological Park

Indira Gandhi Zoological Park is located amidst Kambalakonda Reserve Forest in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.

ITUpSAT1

It was launched on September 23, 2009 atop a PSLV-C14 satellite launch vehicle from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh in India, and became the first Turkish university satellite to orbit the Earth.

John Campbell of Stonefield

Forces under his command thereafter stormed the fort of Anantapur on the Malabar coast.

Jujjavarapu

Most of the people with this last name live in the west godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Kurli

Kurli, Andhra Pradesh, a village in Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh state, India

Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital

Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital is located in Warangal of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Mohd Amanullah Khan

Moh Amanullah Khan served as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Chandrayangutta constituency in Andhra Pradesh, India, between 1978 and 1999.

Narla Tata Rao

Narla Tata Rao (4 September 1917 - 7 April 2007) was a doyen of the power sector in India and a former chairman of the Andhra Pradesh State Electricity Board.

Navnirmaan

Navnirmaan is a Tsunami response programme of Peoples Action for Rural Awakening for the Tsunami-affected people of East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh, South India.

Nayakuralu Nagamma

This war was very important in the social history of Andhra Pradesh.

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She is one of the key characters along with Bramha Naidu in the epic war - Palnati Yudham (War of Palnad) set in the medieval Andhra Pradesh, a southern state of India.

Nehru Zoological Park

Nehru Zoological Park (also known as Hyderabad Zoo or Zoo Park) is a zoo located near Mir Alam Tank in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Paritala Sunitha

Paritala Sunita is a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh representing the Raptadu constituency of Anantapur.

Pattabhi

Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya, an Indian independence activist and political leader in the state of Andhra Pradesh

Rakta Charitra

The film starts with a narration about politics and gangs in Anantpur district, Andhra Pradesh.

Regent Diamond

In 1698, a slave found the 410 carat (82 g) uncut diamond in Kollur mine (more specifically in Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India) and hid it inside a large wound in his leg.

Sironcha

There is a planned National highway No 16 between Nizamabad in Andhra Pradesh and Jagdalpur in Chhatisgarh State, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh states.

Suchandra

In response to his request, the Buddha gave the first Kalachakra tantra initiation and teachings at Amaravati, a small town in Andhra Pradesh in southeastern India, supposedly emanating at the same time he was also delivering the Prajna Paramita sutras at Vulture Peak Mountain at Rajgir in North India.

Tavernier Blue

The diamond was certainly Indian in origin and likely sourced by Tavernier at the Kollur mine in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh.


Aldas Janaiah

Janaiah was born in agriculturist family on 2 May 1964 to Aldas Janamma and Aldas Saidulu Goud in Mamidala village of Thipparthy Mandal in Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh in India.

Andhra Pradesh by-election, 2012

By-elections occurred in Andhra Pradesh in March for a Vidhan Sabha seat and on 12 June for Nellore and 18 Vidhan Sabha constituencies following the disqualification of defected members of the Indian National Congress who joined the YSR Congress Party of the former chief minister's son, Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy.

Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission

Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) was formed when the State of Andhra Pradesh formed on November 1, 1956.

Andhra Vishnu

Perhaps in his honor, people had dedicated a new temple now located at Srikakulam, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh.

Annamacharya

Annamacharya was born on Vaishakha Shuddha Pournami in the year Sarwadhari (May 9, 1408) in Tallapaka, a village in current day Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Bandi Sailu

Bandi Sailu (1928 – 15 July 2000) or Sayilu Saayilu was a Marxist revolutionary born in a Dalit family in Mandapelli village, Duggondi mandal, Narsampeta Thalukh in the Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Chavali Vyaghreswarudu

Prof Chavali Vyaghreswarudu, MBBS, MS, FICS, FACS was an orthopedic surgeon of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Chintal Basti

Chintal Basti is name of the locality in the city of Hyderabad, capital city of Andhra Pradesh adjacent to Masab Tank, A.C. Guards, Prem Nagar.

Cyclone Yemyin

Early on June 21, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) declared the area a depression, 430 km (270 mi) east-southeast of Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University

It was established in 2008 by an Act of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly (Act No. 32 of 2008), with the main campus at Visakhapatnam and two centers, at Kadapa and Nizamabad.

Gujjula Ravindra Reddy

Gujjula Ravindra Reddy (born Bhadrachalam, Andhra Pradesh, India) is a former member of the state parliament of Brandenburg and former mayor of Altlandsberg.

Hanuman Jayanti

In Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, Hanuman Jayanti is celebrated on Vaishaka Krishna Dashami (10th day of Krishna/Bahula Paksha in the month of Vaishaka).

Hyderabad cricket team

The Hyderabad cricket team is a domestic cricket team based in the city of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.

Iluvar

In Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, they are variously known as Edigas, Goud, Billava, Bhandari, Srisayana, or Setti Balijas and Nadar, Illathu Pillaimar in Tamil Nadu and Jaiswal, Poojary in Maharastra and Nalavar, Durave in Sri Lanka and also spread over in different cstes name in all over India.

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid-Tropics (ICRISAT) is a non-profit agricultural research organization headquartered in Patancheru (Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India) with several regional centres (Niamey (Niger), Nairobi (Kenya)) and research stations Bamako (Mali), Bulawayo (Zimbabwe).

International Paper

Andhra Pradesh Paper Mills Rajahmundry, which is now an International Paper company, is one of the biggest integrated paper and pulp manufacturing centers in India.

Jignas

His superlative performance at the schooling age of 14 while studying class IX in Second South Asian Archery championship held in Jamshedpur has brought fame to the entire Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh archery fraternity and also to Volga Archery academy under international coach Lenin, who died in an accident while travelling back home along with

Kandukuri Veeresalingam

Rao Bahadur Kandukuri Veeresalingam also spelled as Kandukuri Veereshalingam (Telugu: కందుకూరి వీరేశలింగం) (16 April 1848 – 27 May 1919), also known as Kandukuri Veereshalingam Pantulu (Telugu: వీరేశలింగం పంతులు), was a social reformer of Andhra Pradesh.

Kothuru, Krishna

Kothuru, or Kotturu, is an hamlet under Tadepalle Panchayat situated at a distance of about 1 km from Tadepalle Village on its northeran side in Vijayawada Rural Mandal, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh.

Little Angels Public School

The Little Angels Public School is located at Jaggayyapeta, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Manavata

Manavata (originally called Chaitanya Bharat Youth Association) was founded on 19 October 1991 by Srinivasa Chowdary Alluri, a social activist, in Lolla, a remote village in the Godavari belt of the Andhra Pradesh state in South India.

Manna-Dora language

It is spoken by the eponymous Scheduled Tribe in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Mettur Thermal Power Station

The coal from Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (Talcher and Ib Valley) and Eastern Coalfields Limited (Raniganj and Mugma) are transported to the load ports of Paradip (Orissa), Vizag (Andhra Pradesh) and Haldia (West Bengal).

MLR Institute of Technology

MLR Institute of Technology (MLRIT) is located at Dundigal, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.

Old Godavari Bridge

The Old Godavari Bridge or The Havelock Bridge is a decommissioned bridge that spans the Godavari River in Andhra Pradesh, India.

Palle Raghunatha Reddy

Palle Raghunatha Reddy is a current Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of Andhra Pradesh, state in southern part of India, representing the constituency of Puttaparthi for the Telugu Desam Party.

Praja Rajyam Party

He launched his political party as an alternative to the ruling Indian National Congress and Telugu Desam Party in his native state of Andhra Pradesh.

Pulicat Lake Bird Sanctuary

Pulicat Lake Bird Sanctuary is a famous 481 km² Protected area in Thiruvallur District of Tamil Nadu state near Elavur and Nellore and Chittoor districts of Andhra Pradesh in South India.

Pushpaka Brahmin

There are similar Brahmin communities found all over India: like Niyogi Brahmins of Andhra Pradesh, Chithpaavan Brahmins of Maharashtra, Bhumihars of Bihar, Mohyal of Punjab or Tyagis of West Uttar Pradesh.

Rajyadhikara Party

Even after India attaining Independence from the British Raj in 1947, Andhra Pradesh state of India is governed till today either by Indian National Congress, dominated by one caste (5% of Andhra Pradesh population) of Forward Caste, or by Telugu Desam Party, dominated by another Forward Caste (3% of Andhra Pradesh population).

Rodda

It is a surname of many people of Reddy Caste in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Salihundam

Salihundam is a historically noted village and panchayat in Gara Mandal of Srikakulam district in Andhra Pradesh, India.

South Zone cricket team

It is a composite team of players from six first-class Indian teams from southern India competing in the Ranji Trophy: Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Hyderabad, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

Sri Kodandaramaswami Temple

Sri Kodandaramaswami Temple, Tirupati, located in the Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh, is a temple dedicated to the Hindu deities Sita, Rama and Lakshmana.

Tamil-Brahmi

These are the earliest documents of a Dravidian language, and the script was well established in the Chera and Pandyan states, in what is now Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and northern Sri Lanka.

Telangana Janata Party

Telangana Janata Party (Telangana Peoples Party), a political party in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh working for statehood for the Telangana region.

Telangana Rashtra Sadhana Front

Telangana Rashtra Sadhana Front, a front of dissident pro-Telangana statehood parties in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, formed ahead of the 2004 general elections.

Telangana Telugu

Telangana Telugu( Telugu : తెలంగాణ తెలుగు ) is a type of Telugu dialect spoken in Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh.

University College for Women, Koti

University College for Women is a constituent women's college of Osmania University, located in Koti, Hyderabad, AP, India.

Visakha Museum

Visakha Museum (Full name: Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation Museum) is a museum located in the port city of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, India which houses the historical treasures and artifacts of the Kalingandhra region.

Zee Telugu

By December 2005, despite having some popular programmes such as game show Gold Rush, hosted by popular female anchor Udayabhanu, as well as soap opera Nishabdam, overall Zee Telugu had only achieved a 1.24% weekday and 1.86% weekend market share in Andhra Pradesh.