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Golconda is a fortified citadel and ruined city located on the western outskirts ... located next to the mosque of Ibrahim and the king's palace, ... Do-Minar, Golconda.
Dancing before Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, Golconda, about 1590. Muhammad Quli was a patron of poetry, paintings, calligraphy and architecture. Major scripts used in this period are Nastaliq, Naksh, Kufi, Tughra and Sulus. A unique inscription is on Mecca Masjid in Nastaliq script, a script not known anywhere else in the Deccan region.
Charminar, along with the Qutb Shahi Monuments of Hyderabad: the Golconda Fort, and the Qutb Shahi Tombs, were included in the "tentative list" of UNESCO World Heritage Site. The monument was submitted by the Permanent Delegation of India to UNESCO on September 10, 2010.
Qutb Shahi architecture is the distinct style of Indo-Islamic architecture developed during the reign of the Qutb Shahi dynasty, also known as the Golconda Sultanate.. Qutb Shahi buildings are seen in the city of Hyderabad and its surroundings.
Golconda, and with the construction of the Char Minar, later Hyderabad, served as capitals of the sultanate, [19] and both cities were embellished by the Qutb Shahi sultans. The dynasty ruled Golconda for 171 years, until Aurangzeb , in his campaigns in the Deccan , conquered the Sultanate of Golconda in 1687 with the completion of his siege of ...
Sultan Quli Qutb-ul-Mulk, [4] more often though less correctly referred to in English as Quli Qutb Shah [a] (1485 – 2 September 1543), was the founder of the Qutb Shahi dynasty, which ruled the Sultanate of Golconda in southern India from 1518 to 1687. [8]
The Qutub Shahi Tombs are located in the Ibrahim Bagh (garden precinct), close to the famous Golconda Fort in Hyderabad, India. They contain the tombs and mosques built by the various kings of the Qutub Shahi dynasty. [3] [4] The galleries of the smaller tombs are of a single storey while the larger ones are two-storied. In the centre of each ...
The Farah Bagh palace (also called Faria Bagh) is situated in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra. It was built by Nizam Shahi rulers in Ahmednagar. [5] [6] [7] Farah Bagh was the centrepiece of a palatial complex completed in 1583. It belonged to the royal household and Murtaza Nizam Shah often retired here to play chess with a Delhi singer he called ...