Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1490 – 1636

Ahmadnagar Sultanate

A state of 1490 – 1636 — 146 years in South Asia. It replaced Bahmani Kingdom and Berar sultanate. The atlas records 7 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 6. Its line of rulers holds 12 people. Its own article says it was conquered by viceroy of the Deccan.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood
146 years
1490 – 1636
Rulers
12
the Ahmadnagar Sultan
Most ground
153,200 km²
in 1579
Within it
7
recorded rows
Symbol
1
on record, with years
Map: Ahmadnagar Sultanate in 1579, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Ahmadnagar Sultanate in 1579, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 153,200 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.
Ahmadnagar Sultanate in 1492, first mapped

1492 · first mapped · 74,100 km²

Ahmadnagar Sultanate in 1579, at its largest

1579 · at its largest · 153,200 km²

Ahmadnagar Sultanate in 1619, last mapped

1619 · last mapped · 56,800 km²

The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Bahmani Kingdom: 1347 – 1527Berar sultanate: 1490 – 1574Ahmadnagar Sultanate: 1490 – 1636

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

How it ended, as its article says

Conquered by viceroy of the Deccan, 1636. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

In 1636 Aurangzeb, then Mughal viceroy of the Deccan, annexed the sultanate to the Mughal Empire.

One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rulers

The line of Ahmadnagar Sultan.

Ahmad Nizam Shah · 1490 – 1510 · the term ends after the recorded deathBurhan Nizam Shah I · 1510 – 1553 · died in office, manner not recordedHussain Nizam Shah I · 1553 – 1565 · died in office, manner not recordedMurtaza Nizam Shah I · 1565 – 1588 · killed, the article saysIsma'il Nizam Shah · 1589 – 1591 · no death date to read the end againstBurhan Nizam Shah II · 1591 – 1595 · died in office, manner not recordedIbrahim Nizam Shah · 1595 – 1596 · no death date to read the end againstAhmad Nizam Shah II · 1596 – 1596 · no death date to read the end againstMurtaza Nizam Shah II · 1600 – 1610 · died in office, manner not recordedBurhan Nizam Shah III · 1610 – 1631 · died in office, manner not recordedHussain Nizam Shah III · 1631 – 1633 · no death date to read the end againstMurtaza Nizam Shah III · 1633 – 1636 · no death date to read the end against150015501600
killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Ahmad Nizam Shah1490 – 151020 yearsthe term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Burhan Nizam Shah I1510 – 155343 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Hussain Nizam Shah I1553 – 156512 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Murtaza Nizam Shah I1565 – 158823 yearskilled, the article saysread from the ruler's own articlechild
Isma'il Nizam Shah1589 – 15912 yearsending not on record
Burhan Nizam Shah II1591 – 15954 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Ibrahim Nizam Shah1595 – 15961 yearending not on record
Ahmad Nizam Shah II1596 – 1596under a yearending not on record
Murtaza Nizam Shah II1600 – 161010 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Burhan Nizam Shah III1610 – 163121 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Hussain Nizam Shah III1631 – 16332 yearsending not on record
Murtaza Nizam Shah III1633 – 16363 yearsending not on record

12 rulers, 12 with terms dated as terms, covering 1490 – 1636. Median reign 7 years. 1 of 11 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

150015501600

74,100 km² in 1500, 56,800 km² in 1636; at its largest 153,200 km² in 1580. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

  • Flag of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate
    flag, undatedFlag of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate · CC BY 4.0 · DurChalen123

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1400 – 1499: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other14001500 – 1599: 5 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 4 other15001600 – 1699: 1 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other1600

1500 – 15995 rows · 1 wars and battles

1600 – 16991 row

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

  • How long it stood146 years

    stood longer than 55% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held153,200 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 54% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per centurynone

    had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • How long a reign lasted, at the median10 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 35% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record12

    has more rulers on record than 84% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 2 causes the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

Bahmani Kingdom · Linked · 1347 – 1527Bahmani KingdomBerar sultanate · Linked · 1490 – 1574Berar sultanateAhmadnagar Sultanate · 1490 – 1636Ahmadnagar Sultanate140015001600
linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

  • Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling

    Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009

    Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.

    • the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 146

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q400998 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.