Nalgonda

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Nalgonda is a town and a municipality in Nalgonda district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Nalgonda district became part of Andhra Pradesh w.e.f. 1st November, 1956 i.e., after reorganization of states. It was formerly known as Neelagiri (Blue Hill). The district is in the Southern part of the Telangana Region between 16-25' and 17-50' of the Northern Latitude and 78-40' and 80-05' of Eastern longitude covering an area of 14,240 Sq. Kms. The District is bounded by Medak and Warangal districts in the North, Guntur and Mahaboobnagar districts in the South, Khammam and Krishna districts in the East and Mahabubnagar and Rangareddy district in the West.

History of Nalgonda

Nalgonda is pre-eminently a unillingual district because Telugu is the language spoken by majority of the population in the district. Lamani or Lambadi comes as a rather distant second followed by Urdu, Tamil, Yerukala, Hindi, Marathi, Banjara, Malayalam, Kannada, Are, Punjabi, Gujrati, Oriya and Nepali. The principal religious groups in the district, are numerically speaking, the Hindus, Muslims and Christians. The Hindus consist of Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas and Sudras. They are again sub-divided each into a number of Sub-castes. There are also the scheduled tribes who cannot be categorised with these castes but are nevertheless an integral part of Hindu Community.

Climate of Nalgonda

The region experiences hot and dry summer throughout the year except during the South West Monsoon season. The year may broadly be divided into four seasons. It experiences cold season from December to Mid February, summer season from Mid February to first week of June. South West monsoon season from June to September and retreating monsoon or the past monsoon season during October to November.

The average rainfall in the district is 772 mm. 71% of the annual rainfall is received by the district during south west monsoon (i.e. June to September). September is the rainiest month. During summer and retreating monsoon season some amount of rainfall is received in the form of thunder showers. The variation in the annual rainfall in the district from year to year is large. On an average there are 46 rainy days. (i.e days with rainfall of over 2.5mm or more).

Places of Interest in Nalgonda

• Nandikonda
• Bhongir Fort
• Deverakonda Fort
• Pillalamarri
• Pochampalle
• Nagarjuna Sagar
• Panagal
• Sri Laxminarsimha Swamy Temple, Yadagirigutta
• Sri Meenakshi Agastheswara Swamy, Wadapally
• Sri Laxminarsimha Swamy Temple, Wadapally
• Sri Jain Mandir, Kolanpak
• Sri Seetharamachandra Swamy Devasthanam, Ramagiri, Nalgonda
• Mellachervu