Kanara

American  

[kuh-nahr-uh, kah-ner-uh] / kəˈnɑr ə, ˈkɑ nər ə /

Or Canara

noun

1. a region in SW India, on the Deccan Plateau. About 60,000 sq. mi. (155,400 sq. km).

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Kanara British  

/ kəˈnɑːrə /

noun

1. a region of SW India, in Karnataka on the Deccan Plateau and the W Coast. Area: about 155 000 sq km (60 000 sq miles)

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Kanara

Kanara, a rainy district on the W. coast of India, between Goa and Malabar, mostly malarial forest country, with the Ghat Mountains and many rivers.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

I have never made any measurements of wild boars, but Colonel Peyton—a first-rate authority—writing in the "Kanara Gazetteer," says that some are to be found measuring forty inches high, and six feet long.

From Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore by Robert H. (Robert Henry) Elliot

The return in question is to be found in the "North Kanara Gazetteer," and was supplied by the late Colonel W. Peyton, who wrote the section on Wild Animals.

From Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore by Robert H. (Robert Henry) Elliot

Karwar is the headquarters of the Kanara district in the Southern portion of the Bombay Presidency.

From My Reminiscences by Sasi Kumar Hesh

HONAVAR, or Onore, a seaport of British India, in the North Kanara district of Bombay.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

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