Rayachoti

Rayachoti is an old town of the southern Deccan, known for its temple of Veerabhadra. A Tamil inscription stands in the older part of the town near the river. During the early modern centuries Rayachoti passed among Mysore, the Bijapur Sultanate, the Mughals and the nawabs of Arcot. Mysore regained the country in the eighteenth century, before it came under British authority at the century's end.