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<20 NUSSEERABAD TOWN-NYAUNG-DUN. Nusseerábád.— Town in Khándesh District, Bombay Presidency: - See NASIRABAD. Nusseerábád. — Town in Maimansingh District, Bengal.-- See NASIRABAD. Núzvíd.-Town in Kistna District, Madras Presidency, and headquarters of the Núzvid zamindirí. Lat. 16° 47' 25" x., long. 80° 53' 20" E. Population (1881) 5657; number of houses, 1213. Hindus number 4824; Muhammadans, 827; and Christians, 6. The town is situated on rising ground about 24 miles north-east of Bezwada around it are large tracts of jungle, which in the last century formed its chief defence. It contains an old mud fort inhabited by the samín The only inade road by which it can be approached is that from Perilsid, a village 15 miles to the south-east of Núzvíd. The chief feature of the town is the large gardens of cocoa-nut palms and mango trees. Núzvíd.-Zamíndárí in Kistna District, Madras Presidency One of the oldest of the large estates in the District. Area, 694 square miles. Population (1881) 125,165, namely, 63,291 males and 61,874 females, occupying 21,219 houses in i town and 231 villages. Hindus number 120,407; Muhammadans, 3903; and Christians, 855. The six divisions of the zumindári are—l'entrapragada, with an annual rental of £8913, and paying a peshkash or quit-rent of £1570; Weygurú, rental £8513, peshkash £1570; Mirjapuram, rental £8657, peshkash £1593 ; Kapileswarapuram, rental £8617, peshkash £1589; Teleprolu, rental £8596, peshkash £1585; and Medura, rental £8864, peshkash £1635. Nyamti.–Village in Shimogá District, Mysore State. Lat. 14° 9' 10" N., long. 75° 36' 55" E. Population (1881) 2753 ; municipal revenue (1881-82), £90; rate of taxation, 8 d. per head. Founded in the beginning of the present century, Nyamti has become a centre of through trade between the hill country and the plains. The merchants all belong to the Lingayat sect. The grain, coarse sugar, and areca-nut produced in the neighbourhood are exchanged for cotton cloth and other manufactured wares brought up from Bellary (Madras) and Dharwár (Bombay). Nyaung-dun (or Vandoon). — Town 60 miles north-west of Rangoon, at the junction of the l'an-hlaing or Nyaung-dun creek with the Irawadi, in Thongwa District, Irawadi Division, Lower Burma. It is the scat of a large transit trade between the upper part of the Irawadi valley and Rangoon. The principal imports are wheat, gram, beans, pickled tea, oil, onions, silk. The exports are nga-pi, rice (husked and unhusked), piece-goods, crockery, carthenware, tobacco, and areca-nuts. Small steamers occasionally run between this town and Rangoon, making the trip, with a farourable tide, in one day.