Nauraspur

{{Short description|Destroyed city in Karnataka, India}} '''Nauraspur''' was a city in what is today Karnataka, India. It was founded in July 1599 by Ibrahim Adil Shah II, the sultan of the Bijapur Sultanate.<ref name="r901">{{cite web | last=Nazim | first=M. | title=Bijapur Inscriptions | url=https://ia801400.us.archive.org/4/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.58423/2015.58423.Memoirs-Of-The-Archaeological-Survey-Of-India-No-49-Bijapur-Inscriptios_text.pdf | access-date=7 November 2025 | page=10}}</ref> It was destroyed in 1624 by Burhan Nizam Shah III, then sultan of the Ahmednagar Sultanate, which were the Adil Shahis' greatest rival and also a member of the Deccan Sultanates.<ref name="IbE">{{cite book|first1=Catherine B.|last1=Asher|first2=Cynthia|last2=Talbor|title=India Before Europe|date=2006|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=169|url=https://archive.org/details/indiabeforeeurop0000ashe/page/168/}}</ref>

It was located {{convert|3|km|mi}} west of Bijapur, the capital of the Sultanate,<ref name="MZ99">{{cite book|last1 = Mitchell|first1 = George|first2 = Mark |last2 = Zebrowski|title = Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanates (The New Cambridge History of India Vol. I:7)|publisher = Cambridge University Press| year = 1999| location = Cambridge| isbn = 0-521-56321-6}}</ref>{{rp|42}} and was intended to be a hub of learning and culture, but was never fully completed when it was destroyed in 1624.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bailey|first=Thomas Grahame|url=https://archive.org/details/HistoryOfUrduLiterature/page/n25/mode/2up|title=A History of Urdu Literature|date=1932|publisher=Association Press (Y.M.C.A.)|isbn=978-81-7000-080-8}}</ref><ref name="IbE"/><ref name="MZ99"/>{{rp|14}}

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Category:Populated places established in 1599 Category:Populated places disestablished in 1624