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HYDERABAD: Every city has a history or some legend, so has Hyderabad, Capital of the erstwhile Nizam state. Very often the origin of their names can be traced to kings and their conquests of territories, towns, forts and women.

Hyderabad was known originally as Bhagyanagar, a city Sultan Muhammad Quli of the Qutub Shahi dynasty had founded and named after his beloved Bhagmati or Bhagyamati in 1590. Once she entered the royal household and embraced Islam, she was rechristened Hydermahal and as a natural consequence, the city got its second name, Hyderabad.

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