Back سلطنة أحمد نجار Arabic Əhmədnaqar sultanlığı Azerbaijani احمدناقر سولطانلیغی AZB আহমেদনগর সালতানাত Bengali/Bangla Sultanat d'Ahmednagar Catalan Ahmadnagar (Sultanat) German Sultanato de Ahmednagar Spanish نظامشاهیان احمدنگر Persian Ahmednagarin sulttaanikunta Finnish अहमदनगर सल्तनत Hindi
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Sultanate of Ahmednagar | |||||||||
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| 28 May 1490–1636 | |||||||||
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![Extent of Ahmadnagar Sultanate.[1]](view_image.php?q=Ahmadnagar_Sultanate&sq=NATO&lang=en&file=File:Deccan_Sultanates_and_Vijayanagara_Empire_1490_-_1687_CE.jpg) Extent of Ahmadnagar Sultanate.[1] | |||||||||
| Capital | Junnar (1490–1494; 1610) Ahmednagar (1494–1600) Daulatabad (1499–1636, secondary capital) Paranda (1600–1610) Aurangabad (1610–1636) | ||||||||
| Common languages | Persian (official) Marathi (de facto) Deccani Urdu (language of the ruling class) | ||||||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam until 1509,[2] Shia Islam 1509 onwards | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
| Sultan | |||||||||
• 1490–1510 | Ahmad Nizam Shah I (first) | ||||||||
• 1633–1636 | Murtaza Nizam Shah III (last) | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 28 May 1490 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1636 | ||||||||
| Currency | Falus[3] | ||||||||
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| Today part of | India | ||||||||
The Sultanate of Ahmednagar or the Nizam Shahi Sultanate was a late medieval Indian Muslim kingdom located in the northwestern Deccan, between the sultanates of Gujarat and Bijapur, ruled by the Nizam Shahi or Bahri dynasty.[4][5][6] It was established when Malik Ahmed, the Bahmani governor of Junnar after defeating the Bahmani army led by general Jahangir Khan on 28 May 1490 declared independence and established the Nizam Shahi dynasty of the Sultanate of Ahmednagar.[7]
Initially his capital was in the town of Junnar with its fort, later renamed Shivneri. In 1494, the foundation was laid for the new capital Ahmadnagar. Ahmednagar sultanate was dependent on Koli chieftains for military or soldiers. Koli chieftains often provided the cavalry and infantry for Sultans of Ahmednagar during wartimes.[8] In 1636 Aurangzeb, then Mugal viceroy of Deccan, finally annexed the sultanate to the Mughal Empire.
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- ^ For a map of their territory see: Schwartzberg, Joseph E. (1978). A Historical atlas of South Asia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 147, map XIV.4 (d). ISBN 0226742210.
- ^ Schimmel, Annemarie (1980). Islam in the Subcontinent. BRILL. p. 55. ISBN 9004061177.
- ^ Stan Goron and J.P. Goenka, The coins of the Indian sultanates : covering the area of present-day India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh (New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal, 2001).
- ^ Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal:Volume 44. Bishop's College Press. 1875. p. 38.
- ^ John Horace Parry (1981). The Age of Reconnaissance. the University of California Press. p. 246. ISBN 9780520042353.
- ^ Sohoni, Pushkar (2018). The Architecture of a Deccan Sultanate: Courtly Practice and Royal Authority in Late Medieval India. London: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781784537944.
- ^ Sen, Sailendra (2013). A Textbook of Medieval Indian History. Primus Books. p. 118. ISBN 978-9-38060-734-4.
- ^ Roy, Kaushik (6 October 2015). Military Manpower, Armies and Warfare in South Asia. New Delhi, India, Asia: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-32127-9.
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