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" Gulbargā, art and architecture - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Wagoner, Phillip B.
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English
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1061822
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ALei2219
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Wagoner, Phillip B.
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Gulbargā, art and architecture - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Wagoner, Phillip B.
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(1,580 words)
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Gulbargā , a city in the southern Indian state of Karnataka (17.34° N latitude and 76.83° E longitude), is a major architectural and cultural centre of the Deccan region. Founded before the Delhi sultanate conquered the area in the early eighth/fourteenth century, Gulbargā rose to prominence in about 750/1349, when, under the name of Aḥsanābād, it became the capital of the Bahmanī sultanate (748–934/1347–1528). When the capital was subsequently shifted to Bīdar, in c. 827/1424, Gulbargā remained an important provincial centre throughout the
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Islam.
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ALei2219.pdf
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