Bidar
Bidar is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka, west of Hyderabad. Once a citadel of Badri Shahi and Bahmani empire Bidar still houses the remains of a gigantic fort along with a couple of tomb complexes.- Type: City with 214,000 residents
- Description: city in Karnataka, India
- Also known as: “City of Whispering Monuments”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bidar railway station and Guru Nanak Jhira Sahib.
Bidar railway station
Railway station
Bidar railway station is located in Bidar district in the Indian state of Karnataka and serves Bidar.
Guru Nanak Jhira Sahib
Gurdwara
Guru Nanak Jhira Sahib is a Sikh historical shrine situated in Bidar, Karnataka, India. Gurdwara Nanak Jhira Sahib was built in 1948 and is dedicated to the first Sikh guru, Guru Nanak.
Mahmud Gawan Madrasa
Ruins
The Mahmud Gawan Madrasa is a former madrasa, now mosque, in partial ruins, located in Bidar, in the state of Karnataka, India. It was completed in 876 AH and is an example of the regional style of Indo-Islamic architecture under the Bahmani Sultanate.
Bidar
- Category: locality
- Location: Bidar, Bīdar District, Northern Karnataka, Karnataka, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
17.9166° or 17° 54′ 60″ north
Longitude
77.5113° or 77° 30′ 41″ east
Population
214,000
Elevation
672 metres (2,205 feet)
IATA airport code
IXX
United Nations Location Code
IN BID
Open location code
7J9VWG86+JG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Bidar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيدار”
- Arabic: “بيدر”
- Arabic: “بَيْدَر”
- Asturian: “Bidar”
- Bengali: “বিদার”
- Bhojpuri: “बीदर”
- Bishnupriya: “বিডর”
- Catalan: “Bidar”
- Cebuano: “Bīdar”
- Chechen: “БидагӀ”
- Chechen: “Бидар”
- Chinese: “Bidar”
- Chinese: “比德尔”
- Chinese: “比德爾”
- Chinese: “比达”
- Chinese: “比達”
- Czech: “Bídar”
- Czech: “Bídár”
- Dutch: “Bidar”
- Esperanto: “Bidar”
- French: “Bidar”
- French: “Bîdâr”
- Georgian: “ბიდარი”
- German: “Bidar”
- Gujarati: “બિદર”
- Hindi: “बीदर”
- Indonesian: “Kota Bidar”
- Italian: “Bidar”
- Japanese: “ビーダル”
- Kannada: “ಬೀದರ”
- Kannada: “ಬೀದರ್”
- Kashmiri: “بیدر”
- Korean: “비다르”
- Ladin: “Bidar”
- Magahi: “बीदर्”
- Maithili: “बीदर”
- Malagasy: “Bidar”
- Malay: “Bidar”
- Malayalam: “ബീദർ”
- Marathi: “बीदर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bidar”
- Nepali: “बीदर”
- Newari: “बीदर”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bidar”
- Norwegian: “Bidar”
- Pampanga: “Bidar”
- Persian: “بیدر، هند”
- Persian: “بیدر”
- Polish: “Bidar”
- Portuguese: “Bidar”
- Russian: “Бидар”
- Sanskrit: “बीदरनगरम्”
- Serbian: “Бидар”
- Slovenian: “Bidar”
- Spanish: “Bidar”
- Swedish: “Bidar”
- Talysh: “Bidar”
- Tamil: “பிடர்”
- Tamil: “பீதர்”
- Telugu: “బీదర్”
- Ukrainian: “Бідар”
- Urdu: “بیدر”
- Vietnamese: “Bidar”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bidar”
- Western Panjabi: “بیدر”
- “बीदर”
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