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The extent of Kakatiya power

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Under Ganapati Deva the empire reached its widest. The exact frontier is not recoverable from the sources and is better shown schematically than falsely drawn.

Maximum extent of Kakatiya power, c. 1250 CEGodavariKrishnaTungabhadraANDHRA PRADESHTAMIL NADUTELANGANAKanchisouthern limitAska Talukfarthest raid, c. 1212Bellarywestern limitto the seaWarangal(Orugallu) · capitalHanamakondaYadavasof DevagiriHoysalasof DwarasamudraWestern Chalukyasof Kalyani · overlords until c. 1157NRaid, c. 1212, not heldConventional extentSchematic. The sources give four limiting points, not aline, so the shaded area is indicative, not surveyed.

At its widest under Ganapati Deva, the empire is described as reaching Kanchi in the south, the sea in the east and Bellary in the west. In the north-east his forces raided as far as Aska in Ganjam around 1212. They did not hold it and fell back south of the Godavari, so Aska is drawn as the reach of a campaign, not a frontier.

Limits after Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal. The base map is from Natural Earth (public domain), with modern state borders for orientation. This is a locator diagram, not a survey.