HYDERABAD – Encyclopaedia Iranica
HYDERABAD (Ḥaydarābād), city in the Deccan of India, situated 17°22' N, 78°27' E, the former capital of the Nizams (Neẓāms) of Hyderabad (ca. 1724-1948) and at present the state capital of Andhra Pradesh in southern India.Hyderabad from the time of its foundation in 999/1591 until Indian independence in 1947 had a three and a half century history as one of the major Muslim states ...