Deccan

Deccan englanniksi

1. A large plateau in southern India; southern or peninsular India.

2. (RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)

3. (quote-book)'s History of Dekkan, from the First Mahummedan Conquests(..)|volume=I|url=https://archive.org/details/ferishtashistory01firi|chapter=Introduction|page=ix|passage=(smallcaps), or the ſouthern diviſion of “Hindooſtan, called by European geographers, The Peninſula, has varied in boundary, at different periods, with the poſſeſſions of its rulers in adjacent provinces.

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5. (quote-book) clan, who had made the Konkan their permanent home about the year (smallcaps) 701 when they fled from the (w) (in the Euphrates valley) to escape the cruelties of the governor, Hajjaj bin Yusuf. Even prior to the Muslim conquest of the Deccan, the (w) had Arabs and Abyssinians in their armies.