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Nawayath Sultanate

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Nawayath Sultanate (13th century C.E. to 14th century C.E.), also known as the Hunnur Sultanate, was a small kingdom situated on the Karavali coast in the present-day Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka. It is believed to have been established by the Nawayath merchant Hasan Nakhuda at Hospattan, a village in Honnavar. The sultanate remained sovereign until 1340, when Harihara-nripala, the ruler of the neighboring kingdom of Gersoppa, which controlled the eastern region of the sultanate, asserted his suzerainty over Sultan Jamaluddin. Unlike most kingdoms of the Indian subcontinent, the Nawayath Sultanate was adept in marine warfare and possessed two notable ships, the Tarida and the Ukairi.