Empire1518 – 1687 · 169 years

Sultanate of Golconda

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 Sultanate of Golconda was an early modern kingdom in southern India, ruled by the Persianate, Shia Islamic Qutb Shahi dynasty of Turkoman origin and later of Dravidic origin. After the decline of the Bahmani Sultanate, the Sultanate of Golconda was established in 1518 by Quli Qutb Shah, as one of the five Deccan sultanates.

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Borders & accuracy

Reconstructed borders

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

SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
DETAILhistorical-basemaps
SNAPSHOT1650
POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire3

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

Battle of Jamkhed1560
Regional
Battle of Kondavidu1563
Regional
Battle of Golconda1687
Regional

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1518 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Sultanate of Golconda (1518 – 1687). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/asia-deccan-sultanate-golconda · Sources & methodology