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The Gujarat Sultanate or Sultanate of Guzerat was a late medieval Islamic Indian kingdom in Western India, primarily in the present-day state of Gujarat. The kingdom was established in 1394 when Muzaffar Shah I , the Governor of Gujarat, declared independence from the Tughlaq dynasty of Delhi .
The Gujarat Subah (Persian: صوبه گجرات) was a province of the Mughal Empire, encompassing the Gujarat region. The region first fell under Mughal control in 1573, when the Mughal emperor Akbar (r. 1556–1605) defeated the Gujarat Sultanate under Muzaffar Shah III. Muzaffar tried to regain the Sultanate in 1584 but failed.
In 1532, Gujarat came under attack of the Mughal Emperor Humayun and fell. Bahadur Shah regained the kingdom in 1536 but he was killed by the Portuguese on board a ship when making a deal with them. The army of Bahadur Shah included the Koli tribe and Abyssinians. [4] The Kolis of Gujarat attacked Humayun in the help of Bahadur Shah at the Gulf ...
Sultanate 1229–1454 AD Sulaymanids: Sultanate 1063–1174 AD Sulayhid dynasty: Sana'a Sultanate 1047–1138 AD Tahirids: Zabid Sultanate 1454–1517 AD Umayyad Caliphate: Dammascus, Harran Empire (religious) 661–750 AD Usfurids: Al-Hasa Kingdom 1253–1320 AD Uyunid: Al Hasa, Awal, Qatif Emirate 1076–1253 AD Wajihids: Suhar Emirate 926 ...
Losses crippled the Mamluk Sultanate and the Gujarat Sultanate. The Battle of Diu was a battle of annihilation similar to the Battle of Lepanto and the Battle of Trafalgar , and one of the most important in world naval history , for it marks the beginning of European dominance over Asian seas that would last until the Second World War .
The Sultanate of Gujarat remained independent until 1576, when the Mughal emperor Akbar conquered and annexed it to the Mughal Empire as a province. Surat had become the prominent and main port of India during Mughal rule. Later in the 18th century, parts of Gujarat came under control of the Baroda State, a kingdom within the Maratha Confederacy.
The Muzaffarid dynasty, also called the Muzaffarids, and sometimes, the Ahmedabad dynasty, ruled the Sultanate of Gujarat in western India from 1391 to 1583. The founder of the dynasty was Zafar Khan (later Muzaffar Shah I) who was governor of Gujarat under the Delhi Sultanate.
The Maitraka Empire ruled Gujarat in western India from the c. 475 to 767 CE. The founder of the dynasty, Senapati (general) Bhatarka, was a military governor of Saurashtra peninsula under Gupta Empire, who had established himself as the