Raghu, better learn history first before writing....
How will you know whether a city belongs to a particular state ? By knowing which is the majority community staying there....How will you know who is the majority community ?
Simple but true. By going around the city and knowing the language on the signboards of the shops.
In Belgaum, the city since ages has been predominantly Marathi. It was taken away by fraud by the ancestors of India's once nose-digger-prime minister (Deve Gowda) with the help of the Mahajan commission.
Now what is Mahajan commission ? Go and read the history books....