Factly#1351 Monuments of the Deccan Sultanate [4th March 2020]

Factly by ForumIAS for Prelims 2020

News:The Government of India has submitted nomination dossier for the inclusion of Monuments and forts of the Deccan Sultanate in World Heritage List for the year 2020.

Facts:

Deccan sultanate:

The Deccan sultanates were five late-medieval Indian kingdoms. They ruled on the Deccan Plateau between the Krishna River and the Vindhya Range.
The kingdoms were Ahmadnagar, Berar, Bidar, Bijapur, and Golconda.[
Their architecture was a regional variant of Indo-Islamic architecture,

Monuments and Forts of the Deccan Sultanate

Monument/Forts	Location	Date	Description
Bahmani Monuments	Gulbarga, Karnataka	14th Century	Comprise of the Gulbarga Fort and Great Mosque in the Fort and the Haft Gumbad complex with seven tombs
Bahmani and Barid Shahi Monuments	Bidar, Karnataka	15th-early 16th century	Comprise of the Bidar Fort, the Madrasa Mahmud Gawan, the Bahamani tombs at Ashtur and the Barid Shahi tombs.
Adil Shahi Monuments	Bijapur, Karnataka	15th to the late 17th centuries	Ensemble of 80 small and big monuments including the fortifications, gates, water systems and tanks, several mosques and tombs and palatial structures Most remarkable: Gol Gumbaz
Qutb Shahi Monuments	Hyderabad, Telangana	1543 to 1672	Golconda Fort, Qutb Shahi Tombs and Charminar

Source:https://whc.unesco.org/fr/listesindicatives/5887/

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