Hyderabad definition

hīdər-ə-băd, -bäd, hīdrə-
A city of south-central India east-southeast of Mumbai. Center of a former Mughal kingdom, Hyderabad was founded in 1589 and is today a commercial center and transportation hub and is the capital of Andhra Pradesh.
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(place) City in SC India: capital of Andhra Pradesh state.
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(place) City in S Pakistan, on the Indus River.
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(place) Former state of SC India.
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State capital of Andhra Pradesh (India).
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A city in the Sindh province of Pakistan.
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A city of southern Pakistan on the Indus River northeast of Karachi. Founded in 1768, it was occupied by the British in 1843. The city is noted for its handicrafts.
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Hyderabad Sentence Examples

  • The nizam of the Deccan established himself at Hyderabad, comparatively near the headquarters of the peshwa.

  • There are also mines in the Hyderabad state from which a small amount of gold is produced.

  • Bhopal is the principal Mussulman state in central India, ranking next to Hyderabad among the Mahommedan states of India.

  • But the invaders appear to have acquired only an imperfect possession of the country, as it was again wrested from the Hindu princes of Orissa about the year 1571, during the reign of Ibrahim, of the Kutb Shahi dynasty of Hyderabad or Golconda.

  • At the close of the war with Tippoo Sultan in 1792, these territories fell to the share of the nizam of Hyderabad, by whom they were ceded to the British in 1800, in return for protection by a force of British troops to be stationed at his capital.

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