Secunderabad (ind)

Secunderabad

Secunderabad ranks 5,245th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Medford, Oregon, Khunzakhsky District, and Finspång. Memorable people born in Secunderabad include Sunil Chhetri, Charles Correa, and Ajith Kumar. Secunderabad has been the birth place of many soccer players, and architects. Secunderabad is located in India.

Secunderabad, also spelled as Sikandarabad, is a twin city of Hyderabad and one of the six zones of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) in the Indian state of Telangana. It is the headquarters of the South Central Railway zone. Named after the Mir Akbar Ali Khan Sikander Jah, Asaf Jah III, Nizam of the Asaf Jahi dynasty, Secunderabad was established in 1806 as a British cantonment. Although both the cities are together referred to as the twin cities, Hyderabad and Secunderabad have different histories and cultures, with Secunderabad having developed directly under British rule until 1948, and Hyderabad as the capital of the Nizams' princely state of Hyderabad. Since 1956, the city has housed the Rashtrapati Nilayam, the winter office of the president of India. Read more on Wikipedia