Golconda Sultanate

The Sultanate of Golconda (Telugu: గోల్కొండ సుల్తానేట్; Persian: سلطان‌نشین گلکنده; Deccani: سلطنت گولکنڈه) was an early modern kingdom in southern India, ruled by the Persianate, Shia Islamic Qutb Shahi dynasty of Turkoman origin and later of Dravidic origin (thus called Turco-Dravidians). After the decline of the Bahmani Sultanate, the Sultanate of Golconda was established in 1518 by Quli Qutb Shah, as one of the five Deccan sultanates. The kingdom covered parts of the modern-day Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and some parts of Odisha, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The Golconda sultanate was constantly in conflict with the Adil Shahis and Nizam Shahis, which it shared borders with in the seventeenth century to the west and northwest. In 1636.