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Bidar ( Kannada: ಬೀದರ Bidara, Urdu: بیدار Bidar ) is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka with around 170,000 inhabitants ( 2011 census ). She was from 1430 to 1492 the capital of the Bahmani Sultanate and then to 1619 the capital of the Sultanate of Bidar.

Geography and transport

Bidar is located in the extreme northeast of Karnataka around 640 kilometers north of the capital Bangalore and 140 kilometers north- west of Hyderabad, the capital of the neighboring state of Andhra Pradesh. At the border of Andhra Pradesh, there are only eight kilometers from Bidar. The city is located in the Deccan Plateau at an altitude of 670 meters above sea level. North of the river flows manjira Bidar, a tributary of the Godavari, which supplies the city with drinking water. Bidar is the capital of the district of Bidar.

South of Bidar leads the National Highway 9 from Machilipatnam on Hyderabad to Pune over. About the Station Bidar, the city is connected to the railway network. Around 7 kilometers west of the center of Bidar is the used by the Indian Air Force Airport Bidar.

History

The city of Bidar to have been founded in the 13th century by the Hindu Kakatiya dynasty of Warangal. With the conquest of the Sultanate of Delhi in 1321 began the period of Islamic rule in Bidar. 1347 century the city came to the Bahmani Sultanate, which had become independent of Delhi. The Bahmani ruler Ahmad Shah Wali had the Bidar Fort built in 1430 and moved his capital from Gulbarga according to Bidar. After the fall of the Bahmani Sultanate of Bidar in 1492 the capital of the Sultanate of Bidar. 1619 the Bidar was subjected by the Sultanate of Bijapur. 1656 again conquered the Mogul Emperor Aurangzeb the city and named it in the meantime around in Zafarabad. As the state of Hyderabad in 1724 independently made ​​by the Mughal Empire, also Bidar came to this. During the British colonial era Hyderabad was a nominally independent princely state under British suzerainty.

After the Indian independence in 1947 Hyderabad was incorporated as a federal state in India. In 1956, when the Indian states were regrouped by the States Reorganisation Act, the south-western part of Hyderabad (1973 renamed Karnataka ) came together with the city of Bidar in the structures created by the language barriers of the Kannada State of Mysore.

Attractions

  • The construction of the Arab Mahmud Gawan University is a throwback to the architecture from the time of the Bahmani Sultanate.
  • The Bidar Fort near the center is one of the largest forts in India.
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