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ID: 7001541
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001541
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Hyderābād (inhabited place)  Hyderābād (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 17 22 31 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 17.3753  decimal degrees
Long: 078 28 28 E  degrees minutes   Long: 78.4744  decimal degrees

Note: Conquered by Mughals 1685; damaged by flood 1908; plagued by an epidemic of influenza 1911; Hyderābād state part of India 1948; manufactures cigarettes and textiles; air and rail connections to major Indian cities; site of the ruins of Golconda fort.

Names:
Hyderābād (preferred,C,V,English,U)
Hyderabad (C,V)
Haiderabad (C,V)
Bhaganagar (NA,V)
Hyderabad-Deccan (NA,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of India (nation)  ........  India (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Andhra Pradesh (state)  ............  Andhra Pradesh (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Hyderābād (inhabited place)  ................  Hyderābād (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded 1589
city (C)
state capital (B)  ............  of Hyderābād until 1956; of Andhra Pradesh, currently
trade center (C)
commercial center (C)
educational center (C)
capital (H)  ............  of Golconda kingdom, 1589
regional capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Bhaganagar..........  [VP]
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Haiderabad..........  [VP]
.......................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-67
Hyderābād..........  [VP]
....................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 277
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 403-404
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 185-186
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Hyderabad..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
....................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 277
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 87
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 535
Hyderabad-Deccan..........  [VP]
.............................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 277
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 403-404
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 185-186
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2097701
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-67
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 87
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 535
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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