Mughal Empire

LC control no.	n 2007024725
Descriptive conventions	rda
Geographic heading	Mughal Empire *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Geographic subdivision usage	Mughal Empire
Variant(s)	Mogul Empire Moghul Empire Mugala Empire
Found in	Travels in the Mogul Empire, A.D. 1656-1668, 1976. An atlas of the Mughal Empire, 1982. Merriam-Web. geog. (Mogul Empire or Moghul Empire or Mughal Empire: Muslim empire through much of India; lasted two centuries) Col. gaz. (Mogul Empire) Wikipedia, viewed April 11, 2006 (The Mughal Empire; at its greatest territorial extent ruled eastern parts of Khorasan (including Afghanistan) and most of the Indian subcontinent, then known as Hindustan, including most of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh; est. in 1504 it enjoyed expansion and consolidation until about 1707 (by 1700, the empire had reached its zenith with a territory spanning 4 million km and over 750 million acres) and survived, even if in drastically attenuated form, until 1857; Mughal is the Persian word for Mongol, and was generally used to refer to Central Asian nomads who claimed descent from the Mongol warriors of Genghis Khan) Mugalakāla meṃ nagarīkaraṇa, [2007]: pref. (Mugala) Encyclopaedia of Islam First Edition Online, viewed April 16, 2024 (Mughal, the name given to the dynasty of Emperors of Hindustan founded by Babur in 932 (1526), in virtue of the claim made by Timur, the ancestor of the dynasty, to relationship with the family of the Mongol (Mughal) Cingiz Khan) <https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/db/ei1o> Britannica online, viewed April 16, 2024 (Mughal dynasty; Mughal Empire; India [1526-1857]; Muslim dynasty of Turkic-Mongol origin that ruled most of northern India from the early 16th to the mid-18th century) <https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mughal-dynasty> The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, viewed April 16, 2024 (Mughal Empire) <https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780195305135.001.0001/acref-9780195305135-e-0549> Merriam-Webster Dictionary, viewed April 16, 2024 (Mughal Empire) <https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Mughal%20Empire>
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