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Capital (and largest city) |
Agra (1526–1571) Fatehpur Sikri (1571–1585) Lahore (1585–1598) Agra (1598–1648) Shahjahanabad/Dilli (1648–1799) | |||||||||
Language | Farsi, Urdu | |||||||||
Religion | Official: Islam (1526–1582) Din-e Ilahi (1582–1605) Islam (1605–1799) Majority of population: Hinduism |
The Mughal Empire (Persian: سلطان مغول, Urdu: مغلیہ سلطنت), was an empire extending over large parts of South Asia and was ruled by a dynasty of Turkic origin.