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List of Indian monarchs - Central Pandya Dynasty c. 550 BC - 1311 CE. Kulasekara (c. 550-450 BC) Pandion (c. 50 BC - 50 CE), known as Pandion to Greeks and Romans Kadungon (c. 600-700 CE), revived the dynasty Pandalathu Thampuran (from c. 1102) Punjattil Thampuran (from c. 1102) Jatavarman Sundara Pandyan (1251-1268), revived Pandyan glory, considered one of the greatest conquerors of Southern India Maravarman Sundara Pandyan Maravarman Kulaseka ...

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1320 - Events. January 20 - Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland April 6 - The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath. Ghiyas al-Din Tughlaq founds the Tughlaq dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate. The Venetian Arsenal is rebuilt as the Arsenal Nuovo. Second Shepherds' Crusade. 1320 - Births. April 8 - King Peter I of Portugal (died 1367) John Hawkwood, English mercenary (died ... Including:

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Bukka (also known as Bukka Raya) was an emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire from the Sangama Dynasty. Bukka - Background. Bukka - Early Life. The early life of Bukka as well as his brother Hakka (also known as Harihara Raya) are relatively unknown and most accounts of their early life are based on theories (see the Vijayanagara Empire article to get a more extended description of these theories). One such theory states that Bukka and Hakka were born from the Kuruba clan as ... Including:

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The Vijayanagara empire was based in the Deccan, in peninsular and southern India, from 1336 onwards. It was founded by Harihara, also known as Hakka, and his brother Bukka Raya. It is named after its capital city Vijayanagara, whose impressive ruins surround Hampi in modern Karnataka, India. It lasted from about 1336 to perhaps about 1660, though throughout its last century it was in a slow decline due to a massive and catastrophic defeat at the hands of an alliance of the sultanates, and the capital was taken and brutally razed and ... Including:

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Main article: Delhi Sultanate During the last quarter of the twelfth century, Muhammad of Ghor invaded the Indo-Gangetic plain, conquering in succession Ghazni, Multan, Sindh, Lahore, and Delhi. Qutb-ud-din Aybak, one of his generals proclaimed himself Sultan of Delhi. In the 13th century, Shams ud din Iltumish (1211 - 1236), a former slave-warrior, established a Turkic kingdom in Delhi, which enabled future sultans to push in every direction; within the next 100 years, the Delhi Sultanate extended its sway east to Bengal and s ...

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The initial entry of Islam into South Asia came in the first century after the death of the Prophet Muhammad. The Umayyad caliph in Damascus sent an expedition to Balochistan and Sindh in 711 led by Muhammad bin Qasim (for whom Karachi's second port is named). The expedition went as far north as Multan but was not able to retain that region and was not successful in expanding Islamic rule to other parts of India. Coastal trade and the presence of a Muslim colony in Sindh, however, permitted significant cultural exchanges and the introduction into t ...

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The founding of the original kingdom was based on the principality of Anegondi, based on a fortified town on the Tungabhadra river in the Deccan. In the century preceding the founding of the empire, the old kingdoms of the Deccan had been overrun by Muslim invaders from the north. From 1309, Malik Kafur reached and captured Warangal, later on reaching the Malabar kingdoms. Mubarak of Delhi reached Warangal again in 1323. Between 1334 and 1336, Muhammad Tughlaq of Del ...

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This list is based on the book by Robert Sewell (A Forgotten Empire). Sangama Dynasty Harihara I (Deva Raya) 1336-1343 Bukka I 1343-1379 Harihara II 1379-1399 Bukka II 1399-1406 Deva Raya I 1406-1412 Vira Vijaya 1412-1419 Deva Raya II 1419-1444 (unknown) 1444-1449 Mallikarjuna 1452-1465 (Dates uncertain) Rajasekhara 1468-1469 (Dates uncertain) Virupaksha I 1470-1471 (Dates uncertain) Praudha Deva Raya 1476-? (Dates un ...

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The sultans' failure to hold securely the Deccan and South India resulted in the rise of competing southern dynasties: the Muslim Bahmani Sultanate (1347-1527) and the Hindu Vijayanagara Empire (1336-1565). Zafar Khan, a former provincial governor under the Tughluqs, revolted against his Turkic overlord and proclaimed himself sultan, taking the title Ala-ud-Din Bahman Shah in 1347. The Bahmani Sultanate, located in the northern Deccan, lasted for almost two centuries, until it fragmented into five smaller states, known as the Deccan sultanat ...

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