Ahmednuggur, Or Ahmadnagar. I. A district, familiarly called Nagar, including the sub-collectorate of Nasik, in the Poona division of the presidency of Bombay, British India; area about 10,000 sq. m.; pop. upward of 1,000,000, including nearly 200,000 members of wild tribes and low castes, and 50,000 Moslems.

II. A town, capital of the district, 70 m. N. E. of Poona, and 125 m. E. of Bombay, on the river Seena; pop. about 30,000. The fortress, one mile in circumference, surrounded by a stone wall 30 feet high, and by a broad and deep ditch, and flanked by round towers, is one of the strongest in India. In addition to stone walls, the city is defended by an impenetrable hedge of prickly pear about 20 feet high. The locality is renowned for boar hunting, and abounds in game. The malaria, formerly deadly, was removed by draining previous to 1829, when the headquarters of the Bombay artillery was established here. The city was founded in 1493 by Ahmed Nizam Shah. It was part of the Mogul empire from 1634 to 1707, when it was captured by the Mahrattas. In 1797 it was taken by Sindia, from whom it was wrested by Gen. Wellesley in 1803. Soon afterward, however, it was restored to the peishwa, and it did not finally revert to English authority till 1817.