Ramagiri

Ramagiri Fort occupies a wooded hill above the country near the Godavari and Manair rivers. Its walls, gateways and water reservoirs made the height a defensible centre in northern Telangana. The fort is associated with the Kakatiya rulers of Warangal and with the chiefs who succeeded them after their kingdom fell.

In the fourteenth century Musunuri Kapaya Nayaka appointed Muppa Bhupala to govern Sabbinadu from Ramagiri. The Bahmani sultan Ahmad Shah I invaded Telangana and took the fort in 1433. It later passed through the hands of the Qutb Shahi sultans, the Mughals and the Asaf Jahi rulers of Hyderabad. These successive occupations left their mark on a stronghold whose hilltop position long made it valuable to those governing the surrounding country.