ELLORE, a town of British India, in the Godavari district of Madras, on the East Coast railway, 303 m. from Madras. Pop. The canal systems of the Godavari and the Kistna deltas meet here. There are carpet and hosiery manufactures, cotton, rice, jute and oil mills, cotton ginning and pressing fac tories, a tannery, saltpetre works, and an extensive trade in grain and rice. There is an important high school. Ellore was formerly a military station, and the capital of the Northern Circars. At Pedda Vegi to the north of it are extensive ruins, believed to be remains of the Buddhist kingdom of Vengi. From these the Mo hammedans, after the conquest of the district in 147o, obtained material for building a fort at Ellore.