State · 1518 – 1687

Sultanate of Golconda

A state of 1518 – 1687 — 169 years in South Asia. The atlas records 6 things within it — people 6. Its line of rulers holds 8 people, 7 with dated terms. Its own article says it was dissolved.

Wikidata's English label: Golconda 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: 169 years; 1518 – 1687
Rulers: 8; the Sultan of Galconda
Most ground: 204,300 km²; in 1640
Within it: 6; recorded rows

Map: Sultanate of Golconda in 1640, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Sultanate of Golconda in 1640, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 204,300 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 Golconda in 1519, 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 Golconda in 1640, 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.

How it ended, as its article says

Dissolved, 1687. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

The dynasty came to an end in 1687, during the reign of its seventh sultan Abul Hasan Qutb Shah, when the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb arrested and jailed Abul Hasan for the rest of his life in Daulatabad, incorporating Golconda into the Mughal empire.

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

Rulers

The line of Sultan of Galconda.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Quli Qutb Shah	1512 – 1543	31 years	killedWikidata's manner of death
Jamsheed Quli Qutb Shah	1543 – 1550	7 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	child
Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah Wali	1550 – 1580	30 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	sibling
Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah	1580 – 1612	32 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Sultan Muhammad Qutb Shah	1611 – 1626	15 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Abdullah Qutb Shah	1626 – 1672	46 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Abul Hasan Qutb Shah	1672 – 1687	15 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone

8 rulers, 7 with terms dated as terms, covering 1512 – 1687. Median reign 30 years. 2 of 6 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.

104,400 km² in 1528, 190,400 km² in 1678; at its largest 204,300 km² in 1648. 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.

1500 – 15994 rows

Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah · ruler · 1565 – 1612
Sultan Muhammad Qutb Shah · ruler · 1582 – 1625
Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah Wali · ruler · 1518 – 1580
Subhan Quli Qutb Shah · ruler · 1543 – 1550

1600 – 16992 rows

Abul Hasan Qutb Shah · ruler · 1600 – 1699
Abdullah Qutb Shah · ruler · 1614 – 1672

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 stood169 years
stood longer than 58% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held204,300 km²
held more ground at its peak than 58% 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 median30 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 83% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record8
has more rulers on record than 76% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1501 – 1704, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1640, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q19805959 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · 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.