Hyderabad
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Etymology
    
Borrowed from Urdu حیدر آباد (haidar ābād), from حَيْدَر (haidar, “lion”) + آباد (-ābād, placename suffix). Named in honour of the Caliph Ali Ibn Abi Talib, nicknamed "Haidar" for his lion-like valour in battles.[1]
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈhaɪdəɹəbɑːd/
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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.
 
 
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- A city in Sindh, Pakistan.
Translations
    
capital of Telangana
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References
    
- Everett-Heath, John. Concise Dictionary of World Place Names, Oxford University Press, 2005 p 223 (→ISBN)
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