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NIDEGH

Volume 16 · 107 words · 1842 Edition

a considerable town of Caramania, in Asiatic Turkey, being the ancient Cadyna. Some parts of the old walls are still standing, composed of large stones decayed with age; and the streets contain many ruined fragments of columns. It is inhabited by about 5000 Greeks and Turks, who are very poor, and is the residence of a pasha. It is twenty-two miles east of Karnahissar.

NIDJIGUL, a fortress of the south of India, in the province of Mysore. It was taken in 1770 by the Mahrattas, afterwards recovered from them by Hyder, and now belongs to the rajah of Mysore. Long. 77. 16. E. Lat. 13. 15. N.