Belagavi/Belgaum (Kar)

Kan: ಬೆಳಗಾವಿ beḷagāvi  ‘Bamboo Village’  City/District, Karnataka (Kar) Belgaum, Venugrama. From Skt/Kan: veṇu, ‘bamboo’; and  grāma/gāv(i/e/a), ‘village’. The city’s original name was Venugrama (Belgaum and Belagavi are variations on this). It was founded in the...