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State · 1089 – 1197

Gahadavala dynasty

A state of 1089 – 1197 — 108 years in South Asia. It was replaced by Delhi Sultanate.

  • Wikidata's English label: Gahadavala.

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

Stood
108 years
1089 – 1197
Most ground
217,200 km²
in 1085
Map: Gahadavala dynasty in 1085, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Gahadavala dynasty in 1085, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 217,200 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.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Delhi Sultanate: 1206 – 1526Gahadavala dynasty: 1089 – 1197

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.

After it

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.

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217,200 km² in 1089, 217,000 km² in 1197; at its largest 217,200 km² in 1089. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

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 stood108 years

    stood longer than 48% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held217,200 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 60% 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.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause 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.

Ghaznavids · In the article · 962 · “As a result of these expeditions, the Ghaznavids were forced to conclude a peace treaty with the Gahadavalas.”GhaznavidsGahadavala dynasty · 1089 – 1197Gahadavala dynastyDelhi Sultanate · Linked · 1206 – 1526Delhi Sultanate100012001400
in the articlelinked

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

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

  • Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling

    Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009

    Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.

    • the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 108

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q1147823 (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.