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The Delhi Sultanate or the Sultanate of Delhi was a late medieval empire primarily based in Delhi that stretched over large parts of the Indian subcontinent for more than three centuries. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] The sultanate was established around c. 1206–1211 in the former Ghurid territories in India.
English: Maximum extent of the Delhi Sultanate under Khalji dynasty. Legend: Khalji territory: Dark green; Khalji vassals: Light green; Source for the boundaries: A Historical Atlas of South Asia (1992) edited by Joseph E. Schwartzberg, Plate V.2 map C (p. 38)
Bangladesh's largest international airport, the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, has signage in Arabic. Since the conquest of Bengal by Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khalji in 1203 CE, Arabic (عربي) enjoyed the status of being an official language up until the British Raj period. However, its presence dates back to the 8th century CE ...
The economy of the Bengal Sultanate inherited earlier aspects of the Delhi Sultanate, including mint towns, a salaried bureaucracy and the jagirdar system of land ownership. The production of silver coins inscribed with the name of the Sultan of Bengal was a mark of Bengali sovereignty. [ 94 ]
The Khalji dynasty was of Turko-Afghan [7] [8] [9] origin whose ancestors, the Khalaj, are said to have been initially a Turkic people or a Turkified people [10] of possibly of Indo-Iranian origin [11] who migrated together with their ancestors the Hunas and Hephthalites from Central Asia, [12] into the southern and eastern regions of modern-day Afghanistan as early as 660 CE, where they ruled ...
[1] [2] Following the conquest of India by the Ghurids, five unrelated heterogeneous dynasties ruled over the Delhi Sultanate sequentially: the Mamluk dynasty (1206–1290), the Khalji dynasty (1290–1320), the Tughlaq dynasty (1320–1414), [3] the Sayyid dynasty (1414–1451), and the Lodi dynasty (1451–1526).
English: Extent of the Delhi Sultanate at the time of Jalaluddin Khalji's ascension (1290) Source for the boundaries: A Historical Atlas of South Asia (1992) edited by Joseph E. Schwartzberg, Plate V.2 (p.
The official language is Bengali. Islam is the official and largest religion and Bengali Muslims form the largest ethnoreligious group in the country. Bangladesh is part of the historic and ethnolinguistic region of Bengal, which was divided during the Partition of British India in 1947 as the eastern exclave of the Dominion of Pakistan.