Hyderabad: Difference between revisions

*{{flagicon image|Flag of India.svg}} [[Hyderabad State (1948–1956)|Hyderabad State]] 1948–1956

*{{flagicon image|Flag of United Andhra Pradesh.png}} [[Andhra Pradesh]] 1956–2014

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The discovery of [[Megalithic]] burial sites and [[Hasmathpet cairns|cairn circles]] in the [[suburb]]s of Hyderabad, in 1851 by [[Philip Meadows Taylor]], a [[polymath]] in the service of the Nizam, had provided evidence that the region in which the city stands has been inhabited since the [[South Asian Stone Age|Stone Age]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Prehistoric and megalithic cairns vanish from capital's landscape|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/prehistoric-and-megalithic-cairns-vanish-from-capitals-landscape/articleshow/59696497.cms|newspaper=The Times of India|date=21 July 2017|access-date=19 September 2021|archive-date=21 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210921010650/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/prehistoric-and-megalithic-cairns-vanish-from-capitals-landscape/articleshow/59696497.cms|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="yimene">{{cite book|title=An African Indian community in Hyderabad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DigPvwHTqJ4C|last=Yimene|first=Ababu Minda|year=2004|publisher=Cuvillier Verlag|page=2|isbn=978-3-86537-206-2|access-date=19 September 2021|archive-date=24 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231024075422/https://books.google.com/books?id=DigPvwHTqJ4C|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2008, Archaeologists excavating near the city have unearthed [[Iron Age]] sites that may date from 500&nbsp;[[BCE]].<ref name="Hyd_BC">{{cite news |title=Iron Age burial site discovered |url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/10/stories/2008091058090100.htm |last=Venkateshwarlu |first=K. |newspaper=The Hindu |date=10 September 2008 |access-date=7 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110234947/http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/10/stories/2008091058090100.htm |archive-date=10 November 2013}}</ref> The region comprising modern Hyderabad and its surroundings was ruled by the [[Chalukya dynasty]] from 624&nbsp;[[Common Era|CE]] to 1075&nbsp;CE.<ref name="kolluru">{{cite book |title=Inscriptions of the minor Chalukya dynasties of Andhra Pradesh |publisher=Mittal Publications |page=1 |isbn=978-81-7099-216-5 |last=Kolluru |first=Suryanarayana |year=1993}}</ref> Following the dissolution of the Chalukya empire into four parts in the 11th century, Golconda—now part of Hyderabad—came under the control of the [[Kakatiya dynasty]] from 1158, whose seat of power was at [[Warangal]]—{{cvt|148|km|mi|0}} northeast of modern Hyderabad.<ref name="Golctime">{{harvtxt|Sardar, Golconda through Time|2007|pp=19–41}}</ref> The Kakatiya ruler [[Ganapatideva]] (1199–1262) built a [[Hilltop castle|hilltop]] [[Outpost (military)|outpost]]—later known as [[Golconda Fort]]—to defend their western region.<ref name="yimene"/>