Chowmahalla Palace

Chowmahalla Palace or Chowmahallat is the palace of the Nizams of Hyderabad State located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It was the seat of power of the Asaf Jahi dynasty (1720-1948) and was the official residence of the Nizams during their reign. The palace has been converted into a museum and the ownership still lies with the family.

The palace was constructed at the location of an earlier palace of the Qutb Shahi dynasty and Asaf Jahi dynasty close to the Charminar. Construction of the palace, as it stands today, was started by Nizam Ali Khan Asaf Jah II in 1769. He ordered the building of four palaces from which the nomenclature of Chau Mahalla is derived. The word chār or chahār, and its variation chow, means "four" and the word mahal means "palace" in Urdu, Hindi and Persian.

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Chowmahalla Palaceは、アトラスの城の知名度ランキングで世界814位（全3,734件中）、インドの102件では40位にランクされています。1880年に創建され、アトラスの年代判明済みの城の6%より古い城です（19世紀に創建されたアトラス収録の267件のひとつ）。インドが他とどう比べられるかは、城の統計をご覧ください。

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