Bidar

Bidar is a city in Karnataka state, India. It is the administrative seat of Bidar district.

Bidar was the capital of the Bahmani Sultanate from 1425 until the sultanate's breakup after 1518. It then became the center of one of the five independent sultanates, known as the Deccan sultanates, that were the successor states to the Bahmani kingdom. The Bidar Sultanate was later absorbed by the Sultanate of Bijapur to the west, which was in turn conquered by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in 1686. Bidar was part of the Nizam of Hyderabad's dominions from 1724 to 1948, when Hyderabad was annexed to India to become Hyderabad state. In 1956, Hyderabad was partitioned along linguistic lines, and Bidar district became part of Mysore state, later renamed Karnataka.

Bidar District

Bidar district is located in the northeastern corner of the state, near the borders of Andhra Pradesh to the east and Maharashtra to the north and west. Gulbarga district lies to the south.

How to reach Bidar

Bidar can be reached by rail from Hyderabad.There is a train called Manmad express which starts from Secunderabad at 6:00 pm every day.