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Conflict South Asia

Delhi Sultanate Wars

1206 CE – 1398 CE · 192 years

The Delhi Sultanate expanded Muslim rule across most of the Indian subcontinent through successive dynasties. It also successfully repelled multiple Mongol invasions that would have devastated India as they did Persia and Central Asia.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Delhi Sultanate (various dynasties)
  • Hindu kingdoms, Mongol invaders

Key moments

Defining events in the Delhi Sultanate Wars.

  1. 1192 Battle of Tarain
  2. 1305 Battle of Amroha
  3. 1398 Timur's sack of Delhi

Elsewhere in South Asia at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Hampi

1336 CE – 1565 CE

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minor Hindu kingdoms

Attested 1279 CE – 1300 CE

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Konark Sun Temple

1250 CE – still standing

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Cholas

299 BCE – 1279 CE

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Vijayanagara Empire Wars

1336 CE – 1565 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Mount Everest

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Sinhalese kingdom

Attested 1279 CE – 1400 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1206 CE and 1398 CE.

1250 CE Konark Sun Temple 1336 CE Vijayanagara Empire Wars 1336 CE Hampi 1336 CE Vijayanagara 1206 CE Mongol Conquests

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

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