Bilagi

Also known as Bilgi

Key facts

Settlement.name: Bilagi
Settlement.other_name: Bilgi
Settlement.settlement_type: Town
Settlement.image_skyline: Bilagi Taluk.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Bilagi Taluk
Settlement.pushpin_map: India Karnataka
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Karnataka, India
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: State
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Karnataka
Settlement.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Bagalkot
Settlement.unit_pref: Metric
Settlement.area_total_km2: 4.50
Settlement.elevation_m: 564
Settlement.population_total: 15454
Settlement.population_as_of: 2001
Settlement.population_density_km2: 3434.22

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Area: 4.50
Elevation: 564
Dialing code: 8425

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postal code: 587116

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Divisions of taluka
Culture
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Bilagi is a panchayat town and taluka in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka, India. It is located at a distance of 30 km from the district headquarters of Bagalkote. The main occupation of people in this taluka is agriculture. Most of the farmers grow sugarcane.

==History== To the north of Bilgi is a stone pond called Arettina Bavi ('six-bullock well'), an object of interest. The temple inside the well of Mahadeva, is not worshipped as the linga is broken. The stone inscriptions in Kannada and Persian built into the walls of the well register that it was constructed by Visajipanta in 1708. There is a dargah of Hasan Dongri, in the town. Moharam festival is celebrated in a big way here. One Km to the south of Bilgi is the temple of Shri Siddeshwara, encompassed by hillocks. On a footstep of the temple is an inscription of 1695–96 which records construction of the eastern doorway by Khanderao Timmaji, a subordinate of Vajir Haidar Khan. The famous historic Siddeshwar temple is worshiped by town people It is place of cultural and festival like moharam and Karad hunnime etc