Hubli, a town of Darwar in the presidency of Bombay, stands on a good road leading to Karwar on the Malabar coast, 102 miles to the south-west. It contains (1891) 52,595 inhabitants, and is one of the principal cotton-marts in that section of India.
Hubli
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 818
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