Tag: Kalinga Empire

Did you know? Today's Visakhapatnam once went by the name Kulothunga Cholapatnam!

Did you know that Visakhapatnam once went by the name Kulothunga Cholapatnam?

by Team Yo! Vizag

18/02/2025

Visakhapatnam, as we know it today, once bore a different name—Kulothunga Cholapatnam. Around 1083 AD, a military general of King Kulottunga I (also penned Kulothunga), a powerful Chola ruler, renamed ...

Thotlakonda and its Degraded State

by Team Yo! Vizag

20/12/2016 - Updated on 21/12/2016

When one pictures historical places, one does it with a measure of respect and awe for everything the place stands for. It is a site that is revered by one ...