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Madikeri is located at [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Madikeri lies in the Western Ghats and is a popular hill station. Nearest major cities are Hassan (110 kilometres (68 mi)) to the north, Mangalore (138 kilometres (86 mi)) to the north-west, Mysore (120 kilometres (75 mi)) to the east and Kannur of Kerala to the west (112 km (70 mi)).
Madikeri Town (also known as Mercara Town [1] [2] [3]) was a constituency of the Mysore Legislative Assembly (part of Coorg Legislative Assembly till 31 October 1956). The lone election to this constituency was conducted in 1952 to the legislature of the Coorg State (Kodagu) in India . [ 4 ]
Madikeri Fort, also called Mercara Fort, is a fort in Madikeri, in the Kodagu district of the Indian state of Karnataka, first built by Mudduraja in the second half of the 17th century. Mudduraja also built the palace within the fort.
Raja's Seat, one of the major tourist attractions in Madikeri View point on Raja's Seat. Raja's Seat (Seat of the King) is a culturally significant site and tourist attraction in Madikeri of Coorg District. It is 270km away from Bangalore, the capital of Karnataka. Raja's Seat is located in the middle of a garden called as Gandhi Mantap.
A Megalithic burial or "cromlech" near Virarajendrepet, Joshika in 1868 Portico of the Coorg Rajah's Palace at Somwaspett (May 1853, X, p.48) [1]. The earliest mention about Coorg can be seen in the works those date back to Sangam period (300 BCE – 300 CE).
Subedar Guddemane Appaiah Gowda in Madikeri. The Amara Sullia Rebellion (also called Kalyanappana Katakayi or Amara Sulya Raitha) was an armed uprising against the British government organized by the people of Arebhashe, and Tulunadu that took place in 1837, twenty years before the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The temple tank of Omkareshwara Temple of Madikeri, the town is in the background On their ancestral clan lands they have a shrine (Kaimada), which is the shrine of the clan's first ancestor (Guru Karana – Karana).
Bhagamandala is located about 33 km from the district headquarters Madikeri and is connected by paved roads from Madikeri, Virajpet and nearby places in Karnataka and Kerala. Government and private buses are available on all of these routes.