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
1492 · first mapped · 74,100 km²
1579 · at its largest · 153,200 km²
1619 · last mapped · 56,800 km²
Where it sits in time
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
- Bahmani Kingdom · replaces · 1347 – 1527
- Berar sultanate · replaces · 1490 – 1574
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.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmad Nizam Shah | 1490 – 1510 | 20 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | |
| Burhan Nizam Shah I | 1510 – 1553 | 43 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Hussain Nizam Shah I | 1553 – 1565 | 12 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Murtaza Nizam Shah I | 1565 – 1588 | 23 years | killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | child |
| Isma'il Nizam Shah | 1589 – 1591 | 2 years | ending not on record | |
| Burhan Nizam Shah II | 1591 – 1595 | 4 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Ibrahim Nizam Shah | 1595 – 1596 | 1 year | ending not on record | |
| Ahmad Nizam Shah II | 1596 – 1596 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Murtaza Nizam Shah II | 1600 – 1610 | 10 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Burhan Nizam Shah III | 1610 – 1631 | 21 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Hussain Nizam Shah III | 1631 – 1633 | 2 years | ending not on record | |
| Murtaza Nizam Shah III | 1633 – 1636 | 3 years | ending 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.
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, 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.
1500 – 15995 rows · 1 wars and battles
- Jijabai · person · 1598 – 1674
- Battle of Chaul · battle · 1508
- Ahmad Nizam Shah · ruler · 1500 – 1509
- Murtaza Nizam Shah II · ruler · 1550 – 1610
- Burhan Nizam Shah I · ruler · 1502 – 1553
1600 – 16991 row
- Shivaji · person · 1627 – 1680
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.
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
- On the timeline, 1475 – 1651, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1579, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
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.