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Bejapoor

or BIJAPUR, a ruined city of Hindustan, in the Bombay presidency, near the borders of the Nizam's dominions, on an affluent of the Krishna.

It was one of the largest cities in India until its capture by Aurungzebe in 1686.

The ruins, of which some are in the richest style of Oriental art, are chiefly Mohammedan, the principal being Mahomet Shah's tomb, with a dome visible for 14 miles, and a Hindu temple in the earliest Brahminical style. Pop. about 27,500.

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