🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Banavasi
Satavahana to Kadamba–Chalukya (100 BCE–1400 CE) · Satavahana to Kadamba (Karnataka early historic)
Kadamba capital (345 CE)—100 ha Varada bend with 4-km rampart, oldest Karnataka city, 1st–14th c continuous.
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🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Satavahana to Kadamba–Chalukya (100 BCE–1400 CE) · Satavahana to Kadamba (Karnataka early historic)
Kadamba capital (345 CE)—100 ha Varada bend with 4-km rampart, oldest Karnataka city, 1st–14th c continuous.
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Medieval Indian (Vijayanagara Empire) · Vijayanagara Hindu imperial (Telugu–Kannada)
Vijayanagara 5-km aqueduct with 19 tanks and stepped pushkarani feeding 500k city 14th–16th c.
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Vijayanagara 14th–16th c. · Vijayanagara Hindu
Hampi hydraulic – Vijayanagara capital's Tungabhadra canal system: 15 km Raya canal, aqueduct on pillars crossing 2-tier, Pushkarini stepped tanks (6.8m deep chlorite schist, geometric black basalt…