Balaghat, Bijapur
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Balaghat, Bijapur
('above the passes'). — The name given by the Musalmans of Bijapur to a region in Southern India conquered by them from Vijayanagar in the seventeenth century. It comprised the north-east part of Mysore and the Bellary, Anantapur, Kurnool, and Cuddapah Districts of Madras.