Polity · 1342 CE – 1576 CE

Sultanate of Bengal

Peak recorded area
361,167 km²
1502 CE
Rulers on record
11
from 1342 CE
Sources cited
2
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Overview

The Bengal Sultanate was a late medieval sultanate based in the Bengal region in eastern South Asia between the 14th and 16th century. It was the dominant power of the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, with a network of mint towns spread across the region.

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Territory

9 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.

361.2K km²01344 CE1533 CE

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Rulers

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

  1. Shamsuddin Ilyas ShahSultan of Bengal1342 CE – 1358 CE
  2. Sikandar ShahSultan of Bengal1358 CE – 1390 CE
  3. Ghiyasuddin Azam ShahSultan of Bengal1390 CE – 1411 CE
  4. Saifuddin Hamza ShahSultan of Bengal1411 CE – 1413 CE
  5. Shihabuddin Bayazid ShahSultan of Bengal1413 CE – 1414 CE
  6. Alauddin Firuz Shah ISultan of Bengal1414 CE
  7. Alauddin Husain ShahSultan of Bengal1494 CE – 1518 CE
  8. Taj Khan KarraniSultan of Bengal1564 CE – 1566 CE
  9. Sulaiman Khan KarraniSultan of Bengal1566 CE – 1572 CE
  10. Bayazid Khan KarraniSultan of Bengal1572 CE
  11. Daud Khan KarraniSultan of Bengal1572 CE – 1576 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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Sultanate of Bengal is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.

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