Answer» Correct Answer - Option 3 : A
The correct answer is Hampi. - The empire is named after its capital city of Vijayanagara, whose ruins surround present-day Hampi, now a World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India.
- Hampi (hastinavati) is the present name of Vijayanagar which was also the capital of the Vijayanagar empire.
- Other capitals of Vijayanagar were- Anegondi, Benugonda, and Chandragiri. Hampi is a village in northern Karnataka state, India.
- By 1564 at least four of the five sultans (Berar is questionable) had begun their march on Vijayanagar, which resulted early in 1565 in the disastrous defeat of the Vijayanagar forces in the Battle of Talikota and in the subsequent sack and destruction of much of the city of Vijayanagar.
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