Mahabubnagar District History

Mahabubnagar is district of Telangana State. Mahabubnagar is largest district in Telangana. It covered 18432 Square Kilometers, the first name of Mahaboobnagar district is Palamoor. Mahaboobnagar District headquarters name is Mahabubnagar. Mahabubnagar District boundaries are Ranga Reddy District, Nalgonda districts, Guntur District, Krishna River, Tungabhadra River and Karnataka State. In Mahabubnagar district 64 mandals are there, among these Mahabubnagar is the lagest mandal in district

Intially it was called "Rukmammapeta" and "Palamooru", Later this place is changed to Mahabubnagar on December 4th, 1890. Mahabubnagar region is famous for Golkonda and Kohinoor diamonds, these diamonds are came from Mahabubnagar.

In Mahabubnagar two major rivers are Krishna and Thungabhadra flows through Mahabubnagar district. Krishna River enters in telangana state at Makthal and Tungabhadra flows through Gadwal and Alampur taluks.

Tourism places in Mahabubnagar District
In Mahabubnagar district many historical temples are there. It also contain many tourism places such as Pillalamari Archaelogical Musuem, Mallelatheertham, Umamaheshwaream temple, Alampur, Jetaprolu Temple, Srirangapur, Somasila, Kollapur(Madhava Swamy Temple), Jurala Project, Koilsagar Irrigation Project, Gadwal, Wanaparti and more..

Pillalamari:
Pillalamari is the one of the most visiting place in Mahabubnagar district. Banyan tree is famous in this place, it is also called "pillalamari". There is a mausoleum of muslim saint under tree. It looks like large Umbrella, the age of Banyan tree is above 700 years and expand its branches.

Mallelatheertham is very beautiful place to visit in Mahabubnagar district. It is a good place for nature lovers. Here beautiful waterfall is located in nallamala forest on the way to Srisailam.

Umamaheshwaram is the famous historical temple in Mahabubnagar. This temple is famous for "Misterious Papavinasanam", you can always find a mug of water what ever you take out from it.  No one could not find where this water is coming.

Jetaprolu is one of the old and historical temple in Mahabubnagar district. Jetaprolu was built in between 10th & 16th centuary A.D. by Agasthyeswara Swamy.

SriRangapur is located at distance of 12 kilometers from wanaparthy. Sri ranganayaka swamy temple was buit in 18th century A.D. by krishnadeva Raya.

Jurala Project is also called as Joorala or Priyadarshini Jurala Project. It is located at 10 kilo meters from Kuravapur, This project constructed on Krishna River, it was completed in 1995. Capacity of Jurala project is 11.94 TMC.

Gadwal is located at between Krishna and Tunghabhadra rivers, it coverd 800 square kilometers. It is one of the historical place in world.

List of Mahabubnagar District Mandals;

1	Achampet		2	Addakal		33	Kondurg		34	Kosgi
3	Alampur		4	Amangal		35	Kothakota		36	Kothur
5	Amrabad		6	Atmakur		37	Lingal		38	Maddur
7	Balanagar		8	Balmoor		39	Madgul		40	Maganoor
9	Bhoothpur		10	Bijinapally		41	Mahabubnagar		42	Makthal
11	Bomraspet		12	C.C.kunta		43	Maldakal		44	Manopad
13	Damaragidda		14	Daroor		45	Midjil		46	Nagarkurnool
15	Devarkadra		16	Dhanwada		47	Narayanpet		48	Narva
17	Doulatabad		18	Farooqnagar		49	Nawabpet		50	Pangal
19	Gadwal		20	Gattu		51	Pebbair		52	Peddakothapally
21	Ghanpur		22	Gopalpet		53	Peddamandadi		54	Tadur
23	Hanwada		24	Ieeza		55	Talakondapally		56	Telkapally
25	Itikyal		26	Jadcherla		57	Thimmajipet		58	Uppununthala
27	Kalwakurthy		28	Keshampet		59	Utkoor		60	Vangoor
29	Kodair		30	Kodangal		61	Veldanda		62	Waddepally
31	Koilkonda		32	Kollapur		63	Wanaparthy		64	Weepangandla