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Shihāb-al-Dīn Aḥmad I

Bahmanī sultan

Also known as: Aḥmad Shāh Bahmanī

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fortress built at Bīdar

In Bidar
…of the Bahmanīs, whose ruler Aḥmad Shah Bahmanī moved the site of his capital from Gulbarga (now Kalaburagi) to Bidar about 1425. He rebuilt and extended the fort that still dominates the city’s layout. Bidar became an independent sultanate in 1531 under the Barīd Shāhī dynasty. The city was annexed…
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history of India

In India: Bahmanī consolidation of the Deccan
…acts of the new sultan, Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad I (reigned 1422–36), was to move the capital from Gulbarga to Bidar, which was surrounded by more fertile ground and had become more centrally located now that some territory had been gained to the southeast, in Telingana. Perhaps, also, the move signified…
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