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Biggest Cities in the Gunpowder Empires with a Map
With the help of a map, can you name the 80 most populous cities controlled by the Mughal, Ottoman and Safavid Empires in the late 17th century?
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Sources used for population estimates listed in this Pastebin.
Both historical and modern-day names accepted.
* indicates European presence in a city.
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Last updated: May 12, 2024
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Historical Biggest Cities
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It's true that all three of these cities were larger in the earlier parts of the 17th century:
- Agra would start declining in favour of Delhi in the mid-17h century.
- Delhi would normally be the residence of the emperor, but Aurangzeb's large moving camp that consisted of most of the population was not present there in the later years of the 17th century and resided at Aurangabad instead.
- Lahore was in a "ruinous state" by 1664, according to a source from Tertius Chandler.
- Bijapur was the center of a Deccan sultanate that had fallen under Mughal vassaldom by the late 17th century. It suffer from a plague outbreak in 1688, killing most of the population and ending its prosperity.