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<div style="font-size:small; text-indent:1.5em;">Reason: <bdi lang="">The map is grossly incorrect and the original research of a user, with no citation to an external source for its data. It reconstructs history of the Indian subcontinent, misrepresents geographical reach and details. Some of these Sultanates shown above did not exist between 1490 and 1687. Vijayanagara Empire shown above was not a Sultanate.</bdi><div lang="" dir="auto"><div class="tiInherit" style="text-align:center;">
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Map of the Muslim Deccan sultanates and Hindu Vijayanagara Empire (1490-1687)
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arab_Hafez" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:User:Arab Hafez">Arab Hafez</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:">English Wikipedia</a> / Later version(s) were uploaded by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Beao" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:User:Beao">Beao</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:">English Wikipedia</a>.
4 September 2007 (original upload date)
<span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>