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Belgaum

American  
[bel-gaum] / bɛlˈgaʊm /

noun

  1. a city in W Karnataka state, in W India.


Belgaum British  
/ bɛlˈɡaʊm /

noun

  1. a city in India, in Karnataka: cotton, furniture, leather. Pop: 399 600 (2001)

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He arrived in India in 1988, a young man seeking work, and has since been winded through cities - Nagpur, Belgaum, Goa, Nasik - before settling in the western metropolis.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025

At her home in Belgaum, southwest India, Savita's mother described the referendum result as a "victory" on behalf of her late daughter.

From BBC ● May 28, 2018

However, stillbirth rates fell from 30 per 1,000 babies to 23 per 1,000 after the training, Dr. Shivaprasad Goudar from Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College in Belgaum, Karnataka and colleagues found.

From Reuters ● Jan. 21, 2013

Praveen took his wife’s body to Belgaum in India for burial, in a funeral ceremony that attracted nearly a thousand friends and family.

From Time ● Dec. 20, 2012

Belgaum, 14th September, 1880.—A nest in sugar-cane about 2 feet from the ground, containing five fresh eggs. 17th September: another nest in a sugar-cane field, containing five eggs about to hatch.

From The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 by Allan Octavian Hume

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