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in squared kilometers. Maps in Talbot indicate expansion through time. "Beginning from their base in northern inland Andhra, the Kakatiyas gradually built up a political network that at its height encompassed roughly two‐thirds of the territory within the modern state." [Talbot 2001, p. 26] "Not all of modern Andhra Pradesh was encompassed by the Kakatiya political network, however. Among the areas excluded is the northeastern territory bordering on Orissa, today two districts known as Srikakulam and Visakhapatnam. Throughout the Kakatiya period, this subregion of the modern state, along with neighboring areas in Orissa, constituted a separate political and cultural sphere, Kalinga. Other districts on the peripheries of Andhra Pradesh—namely, Adilabad, Nizamabad, Hyderabad, Anantapur, and Chittoor—produced no more than a handful of Telugu inscriptions in this era. The geographic parameters of Kakatiya Andhra comprise the vast bulk of the modern state's territory but only 14 out of its 21 districts (see the dotted area in map 3)." [Talbot 2001, p. 49] |
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