State · 1490 – 1686

Sultanate of Bijapur

A state of 1490 – 1686 — 196 years in South Asia. It replaced Vijayanagara Empire. The atlas records 15 things within it — wars and battles 6 · people 9. Its line of rulers holds 9 people.

Wikidata's English label: Bijapur Sultanate.

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

Stood: 196 years; 1490 – 1686
Rulers: 9; the Sultan of Bijapur
Most ground: 397,900 km²; in 1653
Within it: 15; recorded rows

Map: Sultanate of Bijapur in 1653, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Sultanate of Bijapur in 1653, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 397,900 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.

Sultanate of Bijapur in 1492, first mapped — 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.

Sultanate of Bijapur in 1653, at its largest — 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

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

Vijayanagara Empire · replaces · 1336 – 1646

Rulers

The line of Sultan of Bijapur.

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular road

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Yusuf Adil Shah	1489 – 1511	22 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Ismail Adil Shah	1511 – 1534	23 years	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child
Mallu Adil Shah	1534 – 1534	under a year	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Ibrahim Adil Shah I	1534 – 1558	24 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Ali Adil Shah	1558 – 1579	21 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child
Ibrahim Adil Shah II	1580 – 1627	47 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Mohammed Adil Shah of Bijapur	1627 – 1656	29 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Ali Adil Shah II	1656 – 1672	16 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Sikandar Adil Shah	1672 – 1686	14 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child

9 rulers, 9 with terms dated as terms, covering 1489 – 1686. Median reign 22 years. 3 of 8 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.

119,200 km² in 1500, 39,800 km² in 1686; at its largest 369,100 km² in 1660. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

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 – 14991 row

Ismail Adil Shah · ruler · 1498 – 1534

1500 – 15994 rows · 2 wars and battles

Battle of Talikota · battle · 1565
Ibrahim Adil Shah II · ruler · 1570 – 1627
Portuguese conquest of Goa · battle · 1510
Ibrahim Adil Shah I · ruler · 1534 – 1558

1600 – 169910 rows · 4 wars and battles

Sambhaji · writer · 1657 – 1689
Mohammed Adil Shah of Bijapur · ruler · 1601 – 1656
Sai Bhonsale · person · 1633 – 1659
Ali Adil Shah II · ruler · 1638 – 1672
Moropant Trimbak Pingle · commander · 1620 – 1683
Battle of Pratapgarh · battle · 1659
Sikandar Adil Shah · ruler · 1668 – 1700
Battle of Pavan Khind · battle · 1660

and 2 more in the atlas.

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 stood196 years
stood longer than 62% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held397,900 km²
held more ground at its peak than 70% 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 median22 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 68% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record9
has more rulers on record than 78% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause 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.

linked

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

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1470 – 1706, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1653, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q83821 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.