Bijapur

Bijapur, officially Vijayapura, is the district headquarters of Bijapur district in the Indian state of Karnataka, about 519 km north-west of the state capital Bengaluru. It is well known for monuments of the Adil Shahi dynasty, among them the Bijapur Fort, Bara Kaman, the Jama Masjid and the Gol Gumbaz. The city was established in the 10th and 11th centuries under the Kalyani Chalukyas as Vijayapura, the city of victory, passed to the Yadavas, and was taken by the Bahmani Sultanate in 1347 before the Bijapur Sultanate ruled from it. It became a municipal corporation in 2013. Lying well inside the Deccan Peninsula, roughly 130 miles from the west coast and at an average elevation of 606 metres, it had 326,360 residents in the 2011 census and has a semi-arid climate.