the title of the ruler of Hyderabad from the beginning of the 18th century to 1950.
(lowercase) the Turkish regular army or any member of it.
1595–1605; Nizam ( def. 1 ) < Urdu Nizām-al-mulk governor of the realm; Nizam ( def. 2 ) < Turkish nizamiye regular army; both < Arabic niẓām order, arrangement
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"Nizam Hosein, I am programmed to destroy, because he is the devil, but the devil I have to do business with," Mr Dyer added.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2024
The search has moved south to where the two divers were found, Mersing maritime chief Khairul Nizam Misran said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2022
“If we stick together, we can do this,” Hussein tells Nizam, with whom he’s travelled since Turkey.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2015
And it was during that era that large quantities of weapons from foreign sources began flowing into northwestern Pakistan, said Nizam Khan Dawar, chairman of the Tribal Development Network.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 15, 2015
The Nizam had raised a regular corps of eleven thousand men, disciplined by French officers.
From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various
The nizam juggled between his obligations to the colonial raj and to India’s rising pro-independence leaders Jawaharlal Nehru and Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
The families on the beach, the man sitting at a table next to him, the waiters — nobody knew that he was Hyderabad’s last nizam.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
By then the nizam no longer enjoyed real power.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
Mr. Jah was crowned the nizam of Hyderabad.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
The town was founded in 1740 by Ghazi-ud-din, son of Azaf Jah, first nizam of the Deccan, and takes its name from its founder.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" by Various
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