Empire1347 – 1527 · 180 years

Bahmani Sultanate

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Overview

The Bahmani Kingdom, or the Bahmani Sultanate, was a late medieval Persianate kingdom that ruled the Deccan region. The first independent Muslim sultanate of the Deccan, the Bahmani Kingdom came to power in 1347 during the rebellion of Ismail Mukh against Muhammad bin Tughlaq, the Sultan of Delhi. Ismail Mukh then abdicated in favour of Zafar Khan, who established the Bahmani Sultanate.

Wikipedia: Bahmani Kingdom·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Reconstructed borders

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
DETAILhand-traced-from:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahmani_Sultanate
SNAPSHOT1500
POLITY TYPEstate

Bahmani Sultanate at peak under Mahmud Gawan (~1481): Deccan plateau from Tapti north to Tungabhadra south; Telangana/Berar east; Konkan/Goa west. Capitals Gulbarga then Bidar.

Wars of this empire5

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Vijayanagara-Bahmani Wars1366–1565
Major conflict · 500K dead
Bahmani-Vijayanagara Wars1364–1565
Significant · 700K dead
Portuguese Conquest of Goa1510
Significant · 20K dead
Battle of Kauthal1367
Regional
Battle of Kherla1428
Regional

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1347 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Bahmani Sultanate (1347 – 1527). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/asia-bahmani-sultanate · Sources & methodology