Significant1520

Battle of Raichur

Raichur · Raichur Doab · Deccan

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

In 1520 Krishnadevaraya's Vijayanagara army defeated the Bijapur Sultanate at Raichur, capturing the contested Doab fortress and marking the high point of Vijayanagara military power in the Deccan.

Belligerents2

  • Vijayanagara Empire
  • Sultanate of Bijapur

ON THE MAPVijayanagara EmpireSultanate of Bijapur

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Battle of Raichur
  2. Robert Sewell, A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar)
  3. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Raichur (1520). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-raichur · Sources & methodology