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They are 173 items of jewelry reported to be among the world's most exquisite and expensive royal collections. They belonged to a fabulously wealthy dynasty that had ruled over parts of Southern India's Deccan Plateau for seven generations, from 1724 to 1948.
Source: tatoeba (12102152)
So counſel'd hee, and both together went / Into the thickeſt Wood, there ſoon they choſe / The Figtree, not that kind for Fruit renown'd, / But ſuch as at this day to Indians known / In Malabar or Decan ſpreds her Armes / Braunching ſo broad and long, that in the ground / The bended Twigs take root, and Daughters grow / About the Mother Tree, […]
Source: wiktionary
Dekkan, 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.
Source: wiktionary
The spies affirmed, that busy fame, / Declared aloud the gallant name, / Of Hussein Khan, the Sooltan’s son, / Whose brand in battle oft had shone, / And spread his youthful glory wide, / Till stood he forth the Dekhan's pride,— / Now called the Moslem force to lead, / And fire their souls to vengeance dread.
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Closest matches include basaltic, deccan plateau, geographic, historical, igneous province.
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