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A city in northern India. It was the capital of the Delhi Sultanate from the thirteenth century CE, and then the capital of the Mughals. ¹

An additional source is needed for the city's history.

Place of death of: Abadi Bano Begum· Abul Kalam Azad· Aruna Asaf Ali· Firaq Gorakhpuri· Hakim Ajmal Khan· Hakim Nabina Ansari· Hazrat Inayat Khan· Khwaja Hasan Nizami· Kifayatullah Dehlvi· Mahmud Hasan Deobandi· Mirza Ghalib· Momin Khan Momin· Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi· Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari· Mustafa Khan Shefta· Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi· Rafi Ahmed Kidwai· Saifuddin Kitchlew· Shaukat Ali· Zakaullah of Dehli
Home of: Altaf Hussain Hali· A. P. J. Abdul Kalam· Bahadur Shah Zafar· Dagh Dehlvi· Mirza Ghalib· Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi· Shah Ismail Dehlvi· Syed Ahmad Barelvi· Syed Ahmad Khan· Zakaullah of Dehli
Birthplace of: Atta-ur-Rahman· Bahadur Shah Zafar· Bundu Khan· Dagh Dehlvi· Hakim Abdul Hameed· Hakim Ajmal Khan· Hakim Muhammad Said· Khwaja Hasan Nizami· Momin Khan Momin· Muhammad Husain Azad· Mustafa Khan Shefta· Pervez Musharraf· Shah Rukh Khan· Syed Ahmad Khan· Syed Mahmood· Syed Ross Masood· Zakaullah of Dehli· Zeenat Mahal
Burial place of: Hakim Ajmal Khan· Hazrat Inayat Khan· Khwaja Hasan Nizami· Muhammad Yusuf Kandhlawi· Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari· Nawab Mohammad Ismail Khan· Shah Muhammad Sulaiman· Vilayat Inayat Khan
Site of: Coronation of Aurangzeb at Delhi· Founding of Shahjahanabad· Humayun returns to Delhi, 962 AH· Ibn Battuta named envoy to China· Completion of the Jama Masjid of Delhi· Nadir Shah sacks Delhi (1739)· Inauguration of the Red Fort, Delhi· Siege of Delhi· Timur Takes Delhi in 801 AH

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