Polity · 1492 CE – 1686 CE

Bijapur Sultanate

Peak recorded area
396,540 km²
1653 CE
Rulers on record
9
from 1489 CE
Sources cited
2
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Overview

The Sultanate of Bijapur was an early modern kingdom in the western Deccan and South India, ruled by the Muslim Adil Shahi 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.

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Territory

14 dated territorial extents on record from Cliopatria. Areas are measured off the recorded polygons; the line steps because each extent holds until the next one is recorded — nothing is interpolated.

396.5K km²01492 CE1686 CE

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Rulers

9 on record with dated reigns. Reign years follow the house convention: BCE years are negative.

  1. Yusuf Adil ShahSultan of Bijapur1489 CE – 1511 CE
  2. Ismail Adil ShahSultan of Bijapur1511 CE – 1534 CE
  3. Ibrahim Adil Shah ISultan of Bijapur1534 CE – 1558 CE
  4. Mallu Adil ShahSultan of Bijapur1534 CE
  5. Ali Adil ShahSultan of Bijapur1558 CE – 1579 CE
  6. Ibrahim Adil Shah IISultan of Bijapur1580 CE – 1627 CE
  7. Mohammed Adil ShahSultan of Bijapur1627 CE – 1656 CE
  8. Ali Adil Shah IISultan of Bijapur1656 CE – 1672 CE
  9. Sikandar Adil ShahSultan of Bijapur1672 CE – 1686 CE

Sources

Every figure above comes from one of these. Nothing on this page is estimated, interpolated or model-generated.

  • Cliopatria

    Seshat Global History Databank. Cliopatria: a historical basemap of polity borders (cliopatria.geojson).

  • Wikipedia

    Wikipedia contributors. Article lead sections, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Bijapur Sultanate is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.

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