Jeypore is one of the largest towns and a place of historical significance in Koraput district in the Indian state of Odisha. It was established as a capital of king Vir Vikram Dev in the mid 17th century. The kingdom was defeated by the East India Company in 1777 and was made a Zamindari and later was promoted to a Princely state until its dissolution in the Dominion of India in 1947.
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.