Delhi Sultanate, c. 1333Sultanate of Bengal, c. 1502
Timeline
Side by side
Delhi Sultanate
Sultanate of Bengal
Dates
1206 – 1526
1352 – 1576
Duration
321 years
225 years
Kind
Polity
Polity
Region
South Asia
South Asia
Culture spheres
Indic, Islamic
Indic, Islamic
Linked events
53
13
Most common event
Construction
Construction
Borders recorded
1210 – 1528
1344 – 1533
Preceded by
—
Delhi Sultanate
Succeeded by
Bahmani Sultanate, Mughal Empire, Sultanate of Bengal, Vijayanagara Empire
Mughal Empire
About Delhi Sultanate
The Delhi Sultanate or the Sultanate of Delhi was a late medieval empire primarily based in Delhi that stretched over large parts of the Indian subcontinent for more than three centuries. The sultanate was established in 1206 in the former Ghurid territories in India. Its history is generally divided into five periods: Mamluk (1206–1290), Khalji (1290–1320), Tughlaq (1320–1414), Sayyid (1414–1451), and Lodi (1451–1526). It covered large swaths of territory in modern-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, as well as some parts of southern Nepal.
The Bengal Sultanate (Middle Bengali: শাহী বাঙ্গালা, romanization: Śāhī Bāṅgālā, lit. 'Royal/Imperial Bengal') was a late medieval sultanate based in the Bengal region in eastern South Asia between the 14th and 16th centuries. It was the dominant power of the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, with a network of mint towns spread across the region. The Bengal Sultanate had a circle of vassal states in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, including parts of Odisha in the southwest, parts of Bihar in the northwest, parts of Assam in the northeast, Arakan in the southeast, and Tripura in the east.