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'''Jeypore''', is one of the largest towns and a place of historical significance in [[Koraput district]] in the [[OdishaIndia]].n The[[States townand wasunion establishedterritories asof a capitalIndia|state]] of the [[Solar dynasty|SuryavanshiOdisha]] king, Maharaja Vir Vikram Dev in the mid 17th century. It was knownestablished as thea kingdomcapital of [[Kalingaking (historicalVir region)|Kalinga]]Vikram untilDev the unrest caused byin the rebellionmid of17th Balaram Dev III in 1711century. The kingdom was defeated by the [[East India Company]] in 1777 and was made a [[Zamindar|Zamindari]] and later was promoted to a [[Princely state]] until its dissolution in the [[Dominion of India]] in [[Independence Day (India)|1947]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=History {{!}} Koraput District, Government Of Odisha {{!}} India|url=https://koraput.nic.in/history/|access-date=2021-06-17|website=koraput.nic.in|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Sciences|first=Indian Academy of|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=j8PpbDQNAwUC&q=jeypore+state&dq=jeypore+state&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihpv7EtJfxAhUGA3IKHdV6CjUQ6AEwBnoECAgQAw|title=Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences|date=1949|publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences|pages=35|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Majumdar|first=A|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?redir_esc=y&id=2J0fAAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=jeypore|title=The History and culture of the Indian people|date=1962|publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan|pages=9, 189|language=en}}</ref>
The erstwhile kingdom was spread over the region of [[Uttarandhra]] and Southern Odisha. Jeypore is surrounded by hills of the [[Eastern Ghats]] and the [[Araku]] hills on three sides like a horseshoe with the western side opening up to [[Chhattisgarh]] in central India.
