Kalavantin Durg's history is often mixed with that of the nearby

Prabalgad

was built at 685-metre (2,300 foot) high stone spire around 530 BC during Bahmani Sultanate . Around 1458 AD the fort was taken over by Ahmadnagar Sultanate . In the following centuries it was conquered by the Mughal Empire , and became the theater of many battles by different dynasties. In 1826 it briefly became a home for Umaji Naik , a freedom fighter against the British Empire.