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Group of Monuments at Hampi

India
Date of Inscription: 1986
Criteria: (i)(iii)(iv)
Karnataka, Bellary District
N15 18 52 E76 28 18
Ref: 241

Brief Description

The austere, grandiose site of Hampi was the last capital of the last great Hindu Kingdom of Vijayanagar. Its fabulously rich princes built Dravidian temples and palaces which won the admiration of travellers between the 14th and 16th centuries. Conquered by the Deccan Muslim confederacy in 1565, the city was pillaged over a period of six months before being abandoned.

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