Hyderabad Karnataka region of Karnataka

Second most arid region in India.
Consists of following districts of Karnataka

Valedictory of three-day annual Kittur Utsav-2008 heldHyderabad Karnataka should be renamed as Kalyana-Karnataka: writer‘Ensure Belwadi Mallamma of Belgaum district gets her place in international history’Kittur (Belgaum District): Well-known writer and veteran Kannada activist Chidanand Murthy has suggested the Government change the nomenclatures of two territorial regions in northern Karnataka as the existing ones continue to symbolise “slavery”. 

In his address to mark the valedictory of the three-day annual Kittur Utsav-2008 here on Saturday, he said regions such as Mumbai Karnataka and Hyderabad Karnataka should be renamed as “Kittur-Karnataka” and “Kalyana-Karnataka”, respectively. If the Government found it difficult to do so, then it could be called Belgavi-Karnataka and Kalburgi-Karnataka respectively, he said.

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