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Bidar

Bidar

Bidar is a city in the state of . Once a citadel of Badri Shahi and Bahamani empire Bidar still houses the remains of a gigantic fort along with a couple of tomb complexes.
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  • 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.

Railway station
Photo: Belur Ashok, CC0.
is located in in the Indian state of and serves Bidar.

Gurdwara
Photo: Santosh3397, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a Sikh historical shrine situated in Bidar, . Gurdwara Nanak Jhira Sahib was built in 1948 and is dedicated to the first Sikh guru, Guru Nanak.

Ruins
Photo: Prasannasindol, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a former madrasa, now , in partial ruins, located in Bidar, in the state of , India. It was completed in 876 AH and is an example of the regional style of Indo-Islamic architecture under the Bahmani Sultanate.

Bidar

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
node 245642463
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1275738
Wiki­data ID
Q461922
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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”
  • Chinese: “Bidar”
  • Chinese: “比德尔”
  • Chinese: “比德爾”
  • Chinese: “比达”
  • Chinese: “比達”
  • Czech: “Bidar”
  • Czech: “Bídar”
  • Czech: “Bídár”
  • Dutch: “Bidar”
  • Esperanto: “Bidar”
  • French: “Bidar”
  • French: “Bîdâr”
  • Georgian: “ბიდარი”
  • German: “Bidar”
  • Gujarati: “બિદર”
  • Hindi: “बीदर”
  • Italian: “Bidar”
  • Japanese: “ビーダル”
  • Kannada: “ಬೀದರ”
  • Kannada: “ಬೀದರ್”
  • Kashmiri: “بیدر”
  • Korean: “비다르”
  • Ladin: “Bidar”
  • 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”
  • 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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Bidar”. Photo: Sunnya343, CC BY-SA 4.0.