{"id":1713,"date":"2025-12-30T12:24:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yelahankanews.in\/yelhanka\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2025-12-30T12:35:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:35:34","slug":"yelahanka-this-town-is-an-important-location-because-of-its-proximity-to-bengaluru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yelahankanews.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/30\/yelahanka-this-town-is-an-important-location-because-of-its-proximity-to-bengaluru\/","title":{"rendered":"YELAHANKA \u2013 This town is an important location because of its proximity to Bengaluru."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1713\" class=\"elementor elementor-1713\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5f9d543 e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5f9d543\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-83f2849 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"83f2849\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The name Yelahanka is believed to be derived from the name Valipakka or Ilaipakka Naadu during the Chola occupation, which means \u201calong the highway\u201d. Also they called the highway, `Tadigai Vali\u2019.An inscription dated 1267 AD found in Doddaballapur mentions, Dechi Deverasa was ruling this region under the power of Hoysala monarch Narasimha lll.<\/p><p>Many inscriptions found here states this place as Ilaipakka, Elava and Yelavaka.Later, during the Hoysala period, the city came to be known as Elavanka, which gradually evolved into Yelahanka.<br \/>Some of the prominent pesons from this region served in the armies of the Gangas, Cholas, Hoysalas &amp; Vijayanagar as the peasant warriors and attained the status of territorial chiefs of Mandalikas or as Mahanadaprabhus of Yelahanka to whom Kempegowda I (1510-1570) belonged.<\/p><p>Kempegowda l was the Chieftain and feudatory of the area during the reign of Vijayanagar empire. He built Bengaluru fort in 1537 AD and transferred his capital from Yelahanka to Bengaluru.<\/p><p>It is also said that Kempegowda l built a fort in Yelahanka, however, the only surviving reference today is in the form of a road named Kote Beedi meaning \u201cfort road\u201d in Kannada near the Venugopal Swamy temple.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name Yelahanka is believed to be derived from the name Valipakka or Ilaipakka Naadu during the Chola occupation, which means \u201calong the highway\u201d. Also they called the highway, `Tadigai Vali\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yelahankanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yelahankanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yelahankanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yelahankanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yelahankanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/yelahankanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"https:\/\/yelahankanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yelahankanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yelahankanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yelahankanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yelahankanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}