Bijapure (now Vijayapura) is a city in present-day Karnataka which was founded c. tenth century CE by the Western Chalukyas and became one of the significant sultanates in the Deccan region under the Bahmani Sultanate, and later, as the independent Bijapur Sultanate.
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