in Southern India, a town of Hyderabad, or the dominions of the Nizam, is situate on an elevated table-land 2359 feet above the level of the sea. This place is fortified with a stone wall about six miles in circumference, a dry ditch, and many round towers. The town is much decayed, but the remains of many old buildings are still visible. Before the Mahometan invasion it was the seat of a Hindu sovereignty; but upon the revolt of the Deccan in 1347 against the supremacy of Delhi, Beeder was selected as the seat of government of the newly-founded Mahometan kingdom of Balimani. Towards the close of the following century, upon the dismemberment of the territories of which it had formed the capital, Beeder, with an adjacent district, rose to the dignity of a separate state, and though of inconsiderable dimensions contrived to maintain its independence until the commencement of the seventeenth century, when it merged into the neighbouring kingdom of Ahmednagar. In 1636 Shah Jehan, Emperor of Delhi, invaded the Deccan, and subjected Ahmednagar to tribute; but in the anarchy and confusion which prevailed during the decay of the Mogul empire, the town and territory composing the former principality of Beeder fell to the Nizam, and were by him incorporated with the present dominions of Hyderabad. Distant N.W. from Hyderabad 75 miles. Lat. 17. 53. Long. 77. 36.