Vijayanagara
Vijayanagara is a city located in Vijayanagara district of Karnataka state in India. Vijayanagara was the capital city of the historic Vijayanagara Empire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Ruin
- Description: now ruins, previously the capital of Vijayanagara Empire founded in the 14th century
- Also known as: “Bijanagara”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Virupaksha Temple and Matanga Hill.
Virupaksha Temple
Hindu temple
Photo: Amitabho58, CC BY 4.0.
Virupaksha Temple is located in Hampi in the Vijayanagara district of Karnataka, India, situated on the banks of the river Tungabhadra, a 7th-century temple of Lord Shiva. Virupaksha Temple is situated 1¼ km northwest of Vijayanagara.
Matanga Hill
Peak
Matanga Hill, also known as Rishyamuka Parvata is a rocky hill in the Matanga hill range, Hampi, Karnataka, southern India. The hill is supposedly a holy land from the Hindu Ramayana epic.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hampi.
Hampi
Hampi, in the state of Karnataka, India, is the site of the once-magnificent capital of the Vijayanagara Empire. The ruins are a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Vijayanagara
- Categories: archaeological site, historical period, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Hospet, Vijayanagara district, Karnataka, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Turkish—“Vijayanagara” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “বিজয়নগর”
- Breton: “Vijayanagara”
- Chinese: “Vijayanagara”
- Chinese: “毗奢耶那伽罗城”
- Chinese: “毗奢耶那伽羅”
- Dutch: “Vidyayanagar”
- Dutch: “Vijayanagar”
- Dutch: “Vijayanagara”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فيجاياناجارا”
- French: “Vijayanagara”
- Goan Konkani: “विजयनगर”
- Hindi: “बीजानगर”
- Hindi: “विजयनगर”
- Indonesian: “Wijayanagara”
- Italian: “Vijayanagar”
- Italian: “Vijayanagara”
- Japanese: “ヴィジャヤナガル”
- Kannada: “ವಿಜಯನಗರ”
- Korean: “비자야나가라”
- Malagasy: “Vijayanagara”
- Malay: “Vijayanagara”
- Malayalam: “വിജയനഗര”
- Marathi: “विजयनगर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vijayanagara”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vijayanagara”
- Norwegian: “Vijayanagara”
- Panjabi: “ਵਿਜੈਨਗਰ”
- Polish: “Widźajanagar”
- Polish: “Widżajanagar”
- Russian: “Виджаянагара”
- Russian: “Видьянагара”
- Slovenian: “Vidžajanagara”
- Swedish: “Bisnagur”
- Swedish: “Vijayanagara”
- Swedish: “Vijayavanpura”
- Tamil: “விஜயநகரம்”
- Telugu: “బిజనగర”
- Telugu: “విజయనగరం”
- Turkish: “Vijayanagar”
- “Vijayanagara”
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