Hyderabad, the capital of the Nizam's dominions in the Deccan, is 6 m. in circumference, strongly protected all round by a belt of rocky desert, and a centre of Mohammedanism in India. Also the capital of Sind (58), near the apex of the delta of the Indus; manufactures silks, pottery, and lacquered ware, and is strongly fortified.
Population (circa 1900) given as 370,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Hyder Ali * Hydra, The Lernean