Hisar

Hisar, also known as Hissar, is the administrative headquarters of Hisar district in the state of Haryana in northwestern India, 164 kilometres west of New Delhi, and has been identified as a counter-magnet city for the National Capital Region. The English Wikipedia article says it was founded in 1354 as Hisar-e-Firoza by Firoz Shah Tughlaq, the Sultan of Delhi from 1351 to 1388, who built a walled fort with four gates. The city was later ruled by the Mughals and the British, and when Punjab was divided in 1966 it became part of Haryana. The 2011 census gave the city 301,249 residents, with an urban population of 306,893. It has a semi-arid climate with very hot summers and mild winters, an average elevation of 215 metres, and Hindi, Haryanvi and Bagri as its most spoken languages.