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The Charminar in the old city of Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
The Charminar was built in 1591 by Muḥammad Qulī Quṭb Shāh, the fifth king of the Quṭb Shāhī dynasty, as the first building in his new capital city of Hyderabad.1