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gecattyle, when its portico lone ten columns in a Tinei 
front: From dexx. tex, and suaos. 
oo. in Ancient Ca a town of Illy« 
ria in oo 
CCAN. | in Geography & general term, fignifying the 
Can but applied by the Indian geo; rap vers tO the eoun- 
tries that lie fouth of an parallel of 21° o- 22° of N. lat. 
and comprifing nearly on half of the vradt B nerally known 
by the name of the Mogul empire, fo that the Deccan and 
peninfula are about eq: ual to ie Britith flands, Base and. 
Turkey in Europe. ve fig- 
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ry 
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he Mogul emperor, towards the 
e 14th century, 
8 eee the princes of the Deccan al- 
nothing remained to them, except the fortrefs of 
ae ates, or Desgur. About the beginning of the 16th 
century, : Portuguefe see accomplifhed the paflage to 
India by the Care of Good Hope, but their connexions 
were acer with. the maritime partsof the Deccan. As 
it had beea long a ftumbling-block to the Mogul emperors, 
Acbar, in 1 585> refolved on the attack of it, and foon after 
carried the war into Berar, while another army was reducing 
Cafhmere, i in an oppofite corner of the empire. However, 
at the time of Acbar’s death, in 1605, no further progrefs 
was made in the reduGtion of the Deccan, via the adjoining 
countries, than the taking poffeffio weltern part 
Berar, Candeifh, ry (a divifion i Golconda), and 
the northern part lla nagur 5 the capital of which, 
bearing the fame ene w aken in 1601, after a long and 
bloody fiege, and an pales ial attempt to relieve it, by 
the confederate princes of the eccan. In the reign of 
Shah Jehan, =~ afcended the throne in 1628, the conquett 
eccan was vigoroufly purfued ; and the plunders 
and devaflations perpetrated there occafioned moft, or all of 
eae ae acknowledge the em- 
a ancient pol 
uring the ce a of the reign se eis ele who 
difdained to have any other boundary on the fouth befides 
the ocean, the conqueft of the remote oe of the Deccan em- 
ployed a very coaieeacle part of his leifure ; when the whole 
of that region, together with the peninfula, a few mountain- 
ous: and inacceffible traéts only excepted, were either entirely 
throne of Delhi. 
was the detern mined yay and growing power of Sevajee, 
the founder of the Mahratta ftate; who, by his codes 
in Vifiapour, appeared almoft under the charadier of a rival 
eb Accordingly he was employed in the 
Deccan was e a vice-royalty or foubah, and at 
the time of the yehags iy a Shah, the — was Ni- 
zam-al Muluck, ved an apparent independerce, - 
and whofe varifdi@ion ee from Boruanpenr t. Cape 
Comorin, and eaftward to the fea. Six provinces cepei: ded 
- on this prince, and the number el his fubjects was eftimated 
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= 35 millions. The Mahrattas, however, ae: in poffeffion 
the greater part ; other diltri€ts have from time to time 
the ealt, and the Carnatic, and the at Hy der Ally on the 
fouth. His So boundaries, is wars with the 
Mahrattas, have been fubj-& to pet flu€tuation; but 
they are under fkood pre to extend more than 40 miles 
beyond the city of Aurun ngabad, weftwards; and to come 
of Golconda. The dubia of Adoni and Rachore, which: 
were in the hands of Bazalet Jung, (brother to the Ni 
during his life-time, are now in. the hand i 
fourapour, or follapour-rajah, on the — of the 
river, together with fome other rajahs, his tributaries,. 
Probably, fays Mr. Rennell, eee Intred. p. 136. 
the Nizam’s dominions, including his tributaries and feuda~ 
tories, are no lefs than 430 miles in length, from . to 
300 wide. ‘Lill he took poffeffion of the Gun- 
toor Circar in 1780, his deminions no where touched on the 
fea-coalt ; but aed has been fince ceded to the India 
company. See 
Deccan Shabaxp pur, an ifland of — in the mouth of 
the Ganges. at, o' E,. long. 8! 
DECEATES, in Ancient na name of a people 
who occupied the ealtern fide of Gallia Narbonnenfis, near. 
the Mediterranean fea, according to Strabo and Plin 
DECEATUM, the aon of the Deceates, in Gaol, . 
which belonged to the ri 
DECEBALUS, in. Gia » one of the ga 
ae who contended with the greateft fuccefs againft t 
power of the Roman empire. He was raifed to the irae 
) ee on account of his military talents, about the pe- 
= in w mitian was fovereign of Rome. In the 
r that commenced about the year 86, he frequently de- 
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for peace, to which 
ipon a that he fhould receive 
’s own iadem, and a yearly tri- 
bute under the form and ae a a peniion, which was re-- 
gularly paid till the me of a an 
to be tributary to 
with a powerful i and was ee etely victorious. De. 
it to very humiliating terms ; 
fake of peace, he nia to give up his arms and 
difmantie his fortreffes. Scarcely, however, 
