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Asmaka (Assaka)

700 BC – 425 BC
KingdomAsia

Southernmost of the sixteen Mahajanapadas, a Deccan kingdom along the Godavari River in present Telangana/Maharashtra, capital at Potali/Podana, identified by most scholars with modern Bodhan.

Disappears from the historical record by the mid-1st millennium BC (Buddhist and Puranic sources place its end variously between 425 and 345 BC), absorbed by neighboring Avanti (already a dataset record) or successor Deccan polities.

Borders in 600 BC · drawn from 2 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 2 border frames for Asmaka (Assaka) — the shape you scrub through changes in 700 BC · 600 BC.

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