Talikota

City in the Bijapur district of the state of
Karnataka, which in 1565 was the site of
a battle between the Vijayanagar
dynasty king Rama Raja and a coalition
of Muslim sultans from farther north in
the Deccan peninsula. Rama Raja’s disastrous defeat brought the Vijayanagar
dynasty to an abrupt end. The sultans
sacked the empire’s capital at Hampi,
and it has never been inhabited since
that time.