Hyderabad
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Borrowed from Hindi हैदराबाद (haidarābād) / Urdu حیدرآباد (haidarābād), from हैदर (haidar) / حیدر (haidar, “lion”) + -आबाद (-ābād) / آباد (ābād, “-ābād”, placename suffix). Named in honour of the Caliph Ali Ibn Abi Talib, nicknamed "Haidar" for his lion-like valour in battles.[1]
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Hyderabad
- The capital and largest city of Telangana, India, and de-jure capital of Andhra Pradesh.
- A district of Telangana, India.
- A former state, landlocked in south-central India, which was ruled from 1724 until 1948 by a line of nizams.
- 2008, Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, →ISBN, page 916:
- At Indian partition in 1947, the nizam chose to resume Hyderabad's independent status, but India invaded the state (1948) and took control.
- 1995, The Indian Political Science Review, volume 16, page 225:
- Maududi was born in 1903 at Aurangabad in Hyderabad, India, into a family with a long religious tradition.
- A city in Sindh, Pakistan.
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capital of Telangana
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city in Sindh, Pakistan
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Hyderabad f
- Alternative form of Hiderabade
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