Malik Ambar (b. 1548; d. 1626) was a military leader and prime minister of the Ahmednagar Sultanate in the Deccan region credited with carrying out a revenue settlement in the Deccan region and for constructing the Janjira Fort in present-day Murud, Maharashtra. Ambar was born in the Adal Sultanate in present-day Ethiopia.
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