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Siddhavattam | place with historical importance, fort, mandal headquarter

India / Andhra Pradesh / Cuddapah /
 place with historical importance, fort, mandal headquarter
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Siddhavattam or sidhout is a mandal HQ (Mdl code-30) of kadapa Dt, AP. There is a historical for of 11th cetury i this place. There are 18 villages i this mandal ad the villages are :1 Lingampalle, 2 Kadapayapalle, 3 Ponnavolu, 4 Tokkolu, 5 Machupalle, 6 Jyothi, 7 Vontithatipalle, 8 S.rajampeta, 9 Mulapalle, 10 Gundlamoola, 11 Sithout @ siddavattam, 12 Jangalapalle m, 13 Velugupalle, 14 Shakarajupalle, 15 Nekana puram, 16 Peddapalle, 17 Mandapalle, 18 Kanumalapalle
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Coordinates:   14°28'6"N   78°58'2"E

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  • Dr Bommu VB Reddy (guest)
    Siddavatam is is famous for one of the oldest fort built by reddirajulu. which is now under renovation
  • mbalagangadhararao (guest)
    Sidaavatam or sidhout is a small village in Kadapa Dt of AndhraPradesh.Here is a Fort built by MATTLI RAJULU who were Nayakars under Vijayanagara Empire.There is a rock edict at the entrence of the Fort.According to this the edict was at the time of AAraveeti Venkatapathi Rayalu-ii of 1605. The edict mentined about yellamaRaju and his son Anantha Raju. As they were the winners of the OOTUKURU war, Siddavatam was given to them by Vijayanagara Emperrors. AnanthaRaju built the present Fort.The entrence of the Fort lead in to a place where it is sourounded by innervarandahs having huge walls.This place is opened in to a big Mantapam having beautiful sculpture on its walls and pillars.The Fort was captured by MIRJUMLA in 17th centuary and kept the Fort under the control of Mayana Nawabs of Kadapa.The last Nawab of this dynasty AlamKhan built a Darga and a Masjid in the Fort near Penna river.Even though Mayans are muslims they kept the Mantapams and the sculpture intact.HYDERaLI of Mysore attacked the Fort and destroyed it as AlamKhan refused to surrenderduring 1779-80. In 1792 the Fort came in to the hands of Nizams from TippSultan.In 1800 the British East India Co tookover this from the Nizam.The BRITISH administered the Kadapa dt from this fortfrom 1808-1812.Later district administratinshifted to the present town KADAPA.The fort was built on the beautiful left bank of river Penna at the foot of LANKAMALA HILLS.I visited this Fort on 30-04-08.Thanks to Archeological Survey of India for the information.
  • madhu babu (guest)
    i have done my engineering in ksrm cuddapah, one day we went to visit siddavatam and shocked to see this fort for not visiting from past so many years, its very nice and the way it was surrounded with water is beautiful. but there is no much information of the kings who have ruled this fort ... I and a few friends, kiran of krsmce, guntakal, and others came with me ....hope they will see some day and mail to me madhukmb@rediff.com madhu babu.K
  • Kaleem-uddin Khaza (guest)
    I have visited the Siddavatam Fort along with my friend on 28-04/2010. we can find the fort while we proceed to Badvel from Kadapa Town. The fort was a beautifully constructed beside the Penna river by Matti Rajulu. Some rennovation work was under progress by Archeological Department while we visited The fort. Kaleem-uddin Khaza
  • sid (guest)
    Siddavattam fort is not built by reddyrajulu its built by Matli Rajulu.. Pls do correction ....MR.Dr Bommu VB Reddy
  • abdul (guest)
    is anyone knows about the treasure in siddot........plz tell me watever u knows about it
  • Anonymous (guest)
    Hey "Abdul"....how did u come to know about the treasure in siddot....:) Were u the ancestors of Mayana Nawabs (or) Vijayanagara Dynasty...??
  • mayana sameer ahmed khan (guest)
    brothers no one nows abought treasure but only 25% still in side we loos the map
  • common man (guest)
    i have still visting siddavatam.......this is the place which gives a lot of piece....i have a great relationship with this fort..so pls visit this fort atleast once....and i want to ask the management y do u neglect the development of siddavatam fort even though it is under central authority
  • Sibli Abdul
    Hi..There can u tell me some details about the treasure
  • Sibli Abdul
    Where can I find the details about the treasure
  • Vantharam
    I studied in high school there in 1962 remember the popular stories about treasure buried in fort Remember seetaphal trees and fondly my friend Shaukat Ali - Gopichand Patnaik
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