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Sanapur

human settlement in India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ28182771 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sanapur is a village in Gangavathi taluk, Koppal district in Karnataka, India. It has a population of 1628 according to 2011 census. A lake in the village fed by Tungabhadra Dam canal is a tourist attraction. It is 3 km (1.9 mi) away from Virupapur Gaddi and 4 km (2.5 mi) away from Hampi.

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“Sanapur” enters the record as human settlement in India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sanapur, human and settlement can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1628, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sanapur, human and settlement.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28182771. Authority coordinates are 15.350, 76.434. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1628 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sanapur” 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.