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Prolaya Nayaka

d. c. 1333 · 14th century

Prolaya Nayaka was a Telugu chief of the Musunuri family who led the resistance to the Delhi Sultanate after the fall of the Kakatiya dynasty in 1323. He united a confederacy of Nayaka chiefs in coastal Andhra and freed the region from Tughluq rule, a struggle continued by his cousin Kapaya Nayaka, who retook Warangal.

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