Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 300 BCE – 1279 CE

Chola dynasty

A state of 300 BCE – 1279 CE — 1,579 years in South Asia. It replaced Pallava dynasty and Eastern Chalukyas. It was replaced by Pandya dynasty and Kalabhra dynasty. The atlas records 11 things within it — people 11. Its line of rulers holds 32 people, 19 with dated terms.

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Stood
1,579 years
300 BCE – 1279
Rulers
32
the Chola king
Within it
11
recorded rows

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Eastern Chalukyas: 624 – 1189Pallava dynasty: 275 – 897Pandya dynasty: 300 BCE – 1650Kalabhra dynasty: 250 – 600Chola dynasty: 300 BCE – 1279

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

After it

Rulers

The line of Chola king.

Vijayalaya Chola · 848 – 871 · died in office, manner not recordedAditya I · 871 – 907 · died in office, manner not recordedParantaka I · 907 – 955 · died in office, manner not recordedArinjaya Chola · 956 – … · no end recordedParantaka II · 957 – 970 · left office aliveRajaraja I · 985 – 1014 · died in office, manner not recordedRajendra I · 1014 – 1044 · died in office, manner not recordedRajadhiraja I · 1044 – 1054 · died in office, manner not recordedRajendra Chola II · 1054 – 1063 · died in office, manner not recordedVirarajendra Chola · 1063 – 1070 · died in office, manner not recordedAthirajendra Chola · 1070 – 1070 · died in office, manner not recordedKulottunga I · 1070 – 1120 · left office aliveVikrama Chola · 1118 – 1135 · died in office, manner not recordedKulothunga Chola II · 1133 – 1150 · died in office, manner not recordedRajaraja II · 1146 – 1173 · died in office, manner not recordedRajadiraja Chola II · 1166 – 1178 · died in office, manner not recordedKulothunga III · 1178 – 1218 · died in office, manner not recordedRajaraja III · 1216 – 1256 · left office aliveRajendra Chola III · 1246 – 1279 · died in office, manner not recorded15001000
died in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Vijayalaya Chola848 – 87123 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Aditya I871 – 90736 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Parantaka I907 – 95548 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Arinjaya Chola956 – —no end recordedending not on recordchild
Parantaka II957 – 97013 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alonechild
Rajaraja I985 – 101429 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Rajendra I1014 – 104430 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Rajadhiraja I1044 – 105410 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Rajendra Chola II1054 – 10639 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonesibling
Virarajendra Chola1063 – 10707 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the termsibling
Athirajendra Chola1070 – 1070under a yeardied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Kulottunga I1070 – 112050 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Vikrama Chola1118 – 113517 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Kulothunga Chola II1133 – 115017 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Rajaraja II1146 – 117327 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Rajadiraja Chola II1166 – 117812 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Kulothunga III1178 – 121840 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Rajaraja III1216 – 125640 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alonechild
Rajendra Chola III1246 – 127933 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonesibling

32 rulers, 19 with terms dated as terms, covering 848 – 1279. Median reign 25 years. 6 of 18 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”.

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.

300 BCE – 201 BCE: 1 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other300 BCE200 BCE – 101 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other100 BCE – 1 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other100 BCE0 – 99: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other100 – 199: 1 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other100200 – 299: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other300 – 399: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other300400 – 499: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other500 – 599: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other500600 – 699: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other700 – 799: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other700800 – 899: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other900 – 999: 3 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 3 other9001000 – 1099: 4 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 4 other1100 – 1199: 2 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 2 other11001200 – 1299: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other

300 BCE – 201 BCE1 row

  • Ellalan · ruler · 235 – 161 BCE

100 – 1991 row

900 – 9993 rows

1000 – 10994 rows

1100 – 11992 rows

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 stood1,579 years

    stood longer than 99% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • 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 median27 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 78% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record32

    has more rulers on record than 95% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 0 causes the record names and 1 result, 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.

Chola dynasty · 300 BCE – 1279Chola dynastyPandya dynasty · Linked · 300 BCE – 1650Pandya dynasty150010001500
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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

Wikidata Q151148 (CC0) · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.