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Kunandarkoil block

c.d. block in Pudukkottai district, in Tamil Nadu state, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ25553120 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kunandarkoil block is a revenue block in Pudukkottai district, Tamil Nadu, India. It has a total of 37 panchayat villages.

Villages of Kunandarkoil Block

1. Andakulam

2. Chettipatti

3. Kannagudi

4. Killanur

5. Killukottai

6. Killukulavaipatti

7. Koppampatti

8. Kulathur, Kunandarkoil, Pudukkottai

9. Lekkanapatti

10. Mangathevanpatti

11. Melapuduvayal

12. Minnathur

13. Mootampatti

14. Nanjur

15. Odugampatti

16. Odukoor

17. Pallathupatti

18. Papudaiyanpatti

19. Perambur, Pudukkottai

20. Periyathambiudaiyanpatti

21. Puliyur, Pudukkottai

22. Rakkathampatti

23. Senaiyakudi

24. Sengalur

25. T.keelaiyur

26. Thayinipatti

27. Themmavur

28. Thennangudi

29. Udayalipatti

30. Uppiliyakudi

31. Vaithur

32. Valamangalam

33. Valiyampatti

34. Vathanakottai

35. Vathanakuruchi

36. Veerakkudi

37. Visalur, Pudukkottai

References

"Map of Pudukkottai district". Government of Tamil Nadu.

Editorial summary

“Kunandarkoil block” enters the record as c.d. block in Pudukkottai district, in Tamil Nadu state, India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kunandarkoil, block and Pudukkottai can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 112-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kunandarkoil, block and Pudukkottai.
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Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25553120. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kunandarkoil block” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.