State · 1026 – 1343

Hoysala Kingdom

A state of 1026 – 1343 — 317 years in South Asia. It replaced Western Chalukya Empire. It was replaced by Vijayanagara Empire and Harihara I. The atlas records 9 things within it — people 9. Its line of rulers holds 12 people.

Wikidata's English label: Hoysala Empire.

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

Stood: 317 years; 1026 – 1343
Rulers: 12; the Hoysala king
Most ground: 111,800 km²; in 1111
Within it: 9; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Hoysala Kingdom in 1111, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Hoysala Kingdom in 1111, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 111,800 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

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

Western Chalukya Empire · replaces · 973 – 1189

After it

Vijayanagara Empire · replaced by · 1336 – 1646
Harihara I · replaced by · 1306 – 1356

Rulers

The line of Hoysala king.

deposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Munda	1006 – 1026	20 years	ending not on record
Nripa Kama II	1026 – 1047	21 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Hoysala Vinayaditya	1047 – 1098	51 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Ereyanga	1098 – 1102	4 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Veera Ballala I	1102 – 1108	6 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Vishnuvardhana	1108 – 1152	44 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Narasimha I	1152 – 1173	21 years	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child
Veera Ballala II	1173 – 1220	47 years	ending not on record	child
Vira Narasimha II	1220 – 1235	15 years	ending not on record	child
Vira Someshwara	1235 – 1263	28 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	child
Narasimha III	1263 – 1292	29 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	child
Veera Ballala III	1292 – 1343	51 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child

12 rulers, 12 with terms dated as terms, covering 1006 – 1343. Median reign 24.5 years. 1 of 11 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.

111,200 km² in 1126, 111,200 km² in 1343; at its largest 111,700 km² in 1201. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

coat of arms, undatedHoysala emblem · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Subramanya Hariharapura Sridhara

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.

1000 – 10993 rows

Ereyanga · ruler · 1098 – 1102
Nripa Kama II · ruler · 1026 – 1047
Hoysala Vinayaditya · ruler · 1047 – 1098

1100 – 11994 rows

Vishnuvardhana · ruler · 1108 – 1152
Narasimha I · ruler · 1152 – 1173
Veera Ballala I · ruler · 1102 – 1108
Vira Narasimha II · ruler · 1151 – 1235

1200 – 12992 rows

Veera Ballala III · ruler · 1291 – 1343
Vira Someshwara · ruler · 1234 – 1254

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 stood317 years
stood longer than 75% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held111,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 48% 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 median28 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 80% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record12
has more rulers on record than 84% 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 2 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, 994 – 1375, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1111, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q466581 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.