Name: Old Delhi
Address: Old Delhi, South Asia

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Delhi

A city in northern India on the west bank of the Yamuna. It was the capital of the earliest Muslim rulers of India from 608/1211 and of the northern dynasties until 1858, and then of British India from 1911 and independent India after 1947. Many successive cities of government rose in its area, from Qil'a Ray Pithora and Siri to Tughluqabad, Jahanpanah, Firuzabad and Shah Jahan's Shahjahanabad of 1048/1639. It holds the earliest monuments of a settled Islamic power in the subcontinent, from the Quwwat al-Islam mosque and the Qutb Minar to Humayun's tomb, the Red Fort and the Jami Masjid.

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