Talikota Karnataka India

The alliance of the sultanates moves in January 1565 to overthrow the Vijayanagar empire, threatening from the south, at Rakasa-Tangadi (also known as Talikota).

The armies number several hundred thousand with large contingents of elephants; the battle seems to have been decided by the Muslim artillery and the capture and execution of Rama Raya.

The battle, which is decisive in breaking up the Vijayanagar Empire, a Telugu domination over the Tamil and Kannada South, also begins a final Muslim penetration that is to last until the end of the eighteenth century.