State · 543 – 753

Chalukya dynasty

A state of 543 – 753 — 210 years in South Asia. It replaced Kadamba dynasty. It was replaced by Rashtrakuta Empire, Eastern Chalukyas and Kingdom of Jaisalmer. The atlas records 6 things within it — people 6. Its line of rulers holds 8 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 210 years; 543 – 753
Rulers: 8; the Chalukya king
Most ground: 930,700 km²; in 633
Within it: 6; recorded rows

Map: Chalukya dynasty in 633, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Chalukya dynasty in 633, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 930,700 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Chalukya dynasty in 555, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Chalukya dynasty in 633, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Kadamba dynasty · replaces · 345 – 525

After it

Rashtrakuta Empire · replaced by · 753 – 982
Kingdom of Jaisalmer · replaced by · 1156 – 1947
Eastern Chalukyas · replaced by · 624 – 1189

Rulers

The line of Chalukya king.

died in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Kirttivarman I	566 – 597	31 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Mangalesa	596 – 610	14 years	ending not on record	sibling
Pulakeshin II	610 – 642	32 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	nephew or niece
Vikramaditya I	655 – 680	25 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Vinayaditya of Vatapi	680 – 696	16 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Vijayaditya	696 – 733	37 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Vikramaditya II	733 – 744	11 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Kirtivarman II	746 – 753	7 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	child

8 rulers, 8 with terms dated as terms, covering 566 – 753. Median reign 20.5 years. 2 of 7 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

204,200 km² in 563, 812,200 km² in 753; at its largest 930,700 km² in 633. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

500 – 5991 row

Kirttivarman I · ruler · 566 – 597

600 – 6994 rows

Pulakeshin II · ruler · 610 – 642
Vikramaditya I · ruler · 655 – 680
Vinayaditya of Vatapi · ruler · 680 – 696
Vijayaditya · ruler · 696 – 733

700 – 7991 row

Kirtivarman II · ruler · 746 – 750

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood210 years
stood longer than 64% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held930,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 83% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median25 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 75% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record8
has more rulers on record than 76% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 3 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 522 – 774, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 633, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q1395011 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.