Group
Bengal, Sultanate of
The Bengal Sultanate refers to the reign of five short-lived independent Muslim dynasties in Bengal, the eastern deltaic region of the Indian subcontinent, during the Middle Ages.
The first Sultan is Fakhruddin Mubarak Shah, who declares independence from the Delhi Sultanate in 1338 and proclaimed himself as the independent Sultan of Bengal in Sonargaon.
Over the course of the next three centuries, rulers of Turkic, Persian, Bengali, Arab, Abyssinian and Afghan origins rule the sultanate.The sultanate begins to disintegrate after the fall of the Hussain Shahi dynasty in the 16th-century, and is absorbed into the Mughal Empire in 1576.
Member Cities
- Gaur West Bengal India Capital
- Agra Uttar Pradesh India Location
- Bhubaneswar Orissa India Location
- Bihar Bihar India Location
- Buxar Uttar Pradesh India Location
- Calcutta > Kolkata West Bengal India Location
- Chittagong Chittagong (Chittagong) Bangladesh Location
- Dhaka Dhaka (Dhaka) Bangladesh Location
- Jaunpur Uttar Pradesh India Location
- Kathmandu Bagmati Nepal Location
- Mrauk-U Rakhine Myanmar Location
- Narayanganj Narayanganj (Dhaka) Bangladesh Location
- Rohtasgarh Bihar India Location