Ellur

Ellur stands on the Tammileru River in the coastal country of Vengi. Known as Helapuri in earlier times, it was associated with the Salankayana rulers, whose kingdom flourished in the early centuries of the Common Era. An inscription of their king Devavarman records the performance of an ashvamedha sacrifice. Later the country passed through the hands of the Eastern Chalukyas and other dynasties; in the early modern period Ellur came under the Qutb Shahis, the Mughals and the rulers of Hyderabad.