Bijapur Sultanate
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sultanate in southern India (1490-1686); based in the city of Bijapur
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Vinony files it under States and territories disestablished in 1686, States and territories established in 1490 and Sultanate of Bijapur.
Its subject is documented across 38 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Capital
- Bijapur
- Official languages
- Persian
- Common languages
- Deccani Kannada Marathi
- Religion
- State religion: , Shia Islam (1504–34 and 1558–82) Sunni Islam (1490–1504, 1534–58, after 1582) Other: , Other religions in South Asia
- Government
- Monarchy
- 1490 1510
- Yusuf Adil Shah (first)
- 1672 1686
- Sikandar Adil Shah (last)
- Historical era
- Early modern
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- historical country
- Religion
- Shia Islam
- Continent
- Asia
- Capital
- Vijayapura
- Shares border with
- Golconda Sultanate
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- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons category
- Bijapur Sultanate
- topic's main category
- Category:Sultanate of Bijapur
- inception
- 1490-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1686-01-01
- language used
- Urdu
- replaces
- Vijayanagara Empire
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Encyclopedic overview
Today part ofIndia
The Sultanate of Bijapur was an early modern kingdom in the western Deccan and South India, ruled by the Muslim Adil Shahi (or Adilshahi) dynasty. Bijapur had been a taraf (province) of the Bahmani Kingdom prior to its independence in 1490 and before the kingdom's political decline in the last quarter of the 15th century. It was one of the Deccan sultanates, the collective name of the kingdom's five successor states. The Sultanate of Bijapur was one of the most powerful states on the Indian Subcontinent at its peak, second to the Mughal Empire which conquered it in 1686 under Aurangzeb.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bijapur Sultanate” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.