Seringapatam

E361777

Seringapatam is a historic town in southern India that served as the capital of the Kingdom of Mysore and the site of major Anglo-Mysore Wars involving Tipu Sultan and the British.

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Label Occurrences
Seringapatam canonical 5
Seringapatnam 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf former capital city
historic town
architecturalStylePresent Dravidian temple architecture
Indo-Islamic architecture
associatedWithRuler Hyder Ali
Tipu Sultan
associatedWithTreaty Treaty of Seringapatam
surface form: Treaty of Seringapatam (1792)
capturedBy British East India Company
British forces
surface form: British forces under General Harris
country India
currentAdministrativeStatus town in Mandya district
dateOfEvent 1799 (fall of Seringapatam)
distanceFromMysore approximately 15 km
governedBy Wadiyar dynasty of Mysore
surface form: Wadiyar dynasty (after 1799)
hasAlternativeName Srirangapatna
hasAlternativeSpelling Seringapatam self-linksurface differs
surface form: Seringapatnam
hasHeritageStatus important heritage site in Karnataka
hasHistoricalPeriodOfImportance 18th century
hasNotableBurialSite tomb of Hyder Ali
tomb of Tipu Sultan
hasReligiousSite Ranganathaswamy Temple, Srirangapatna
hasStructure Daria Daulat Bagh
tomb of Tipu Sultan
surface form: Gumbaz at Seringapatam

Seringapatam Fort
hasTourismType historical tourism
religious tourism
languageSpoken English
Kannada
Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
locatedIn Karnataka
South India
surface form: southern India
locatedInDistrict Mandya district
locatedOnRiver Kaveri
surface form: Kaveri River
namedAfter Ranganathaswamy Temple, Srirangapatna
surface form: Ranganathaswamy Temple
nearCity Mysuru
surface form: Mysore
partOfRegion southern Karnataka
surface form: Old Mysore region
resultOf1799Siege death of Tipu Sultan
end of Kingdom of Mysore as independent power
siteOfBattle Siege of Seringapatam (1792)
Siege of Seringapatam (1799)
siteOfWar Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
Third Anglo-Mysore War
wasCapitalDuringReignOf Hyder Ali
Tipu Sultan
wasCapitalOf Kingdom of Mysore
wasFortifiedBy Hyder Ali
Tipu Sultan
wasStrategicFor control of southern India

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Treaty of Seringapatam placeSigned Seringapatam
Battle of Arakere foughtNear Seringapatam
Battle of Malavelly relatedTo Seringapatam
Seringapatam hasAlternativeSpelling Seringapatam self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Seringapatnam