State · 1215 – 1624
Jaffna kingdom
A state of 1215 – 1624 — 409 years in South Asia. It replaced Pandya dynasty. The atlas records 1 thing within it — wars and battles 1. Its line of rulers holds 22 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
- 409 years
- 1215 – 1624
- Rulers
- 22
- the King of Jaffna
- Most ground
- 22,900 km²
- in 1314
- Within it
- 1
- recorded row
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
- Pandya dynasty · replaces · 300 BCE – 1650 CE
Rulers
The line of King of Jaffna - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kalinga Magha | 1215 – 1255 | 40 years | ending not on record | |
| Chandrabhanu | 1255 – 1263 | 8 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | |
| Savakanmaindan | 1262 – 1277 | 15 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Kulasekara Cinkaiariyan | 1262 – 1284 | 22 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Kulotunga Cinkaiariyan | 1284 – 1292 | 8 years | ending not on record | child |
| Vickrama Cinkaiariyan | 1292 – 1302 | 10 years | ending not on record | child |
| Varodaya Cinkaiariyan | 1302 – 1325 | 23 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Martanda Cinkaiariyan | 1325 – 1347 | 22 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | child |
| Gunabhooshana Cinkaiariyan | 1347 – 1371 | 24 years | ending not on record | child |
| Virodaya Cinkaiariyan | 1371 – 1380 | 9 years | ending not on record | |
| Jeyaveera Cinkaiariyan | 1380 – 1410 | 30 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Gunaveera Cinkaiariyan | 1410 – 1440 | 30 years | ending not on record | child |
| Kanakasooriya Cinkaiariyan | 1440 – 1450 | 10 years | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Bhuvanekabahu VI of Kotte | 1450 – 1467 | 17 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Kanakasooriya Cinkaiariyan | 1467 – 1478 | 11 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Singai Pararasasegaram | 1478 – 1519 | 41 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Cankili I | 1519 – 1561 | 42 years | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | child |
| Puviraja Pandaram | 1561 – 1565 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | child |
| Kasi Nayinar Pararacacekaran | 1565 – 1570 | 5 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Periyapillai | 1565 – 1582 | 17 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Puviraja Pandaram | 1582 – 1591 | 9 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Ethirimana Cinkam | 1591 – 1616 | 25 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | child |
| Cankili II | 1617 – 1619 | 2 years | executed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Don Constantine | 1619 – 1624 | 5 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone |
22 rulers, 22 with terms dated as terms, covering 1215 – 1624. Median reign 16 years. 7 of 23 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.
22,900 km² in 1315, 11,800 km² in 1590; at its largest 22,900 km² in 1315. 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.
1500 – 15991 row · 1 wars and battles
- Portuguese conquest of the Jaffna kingdom · battle · 1560 – 1621
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 stood409 years
stood longer than 81% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held22,900 km²
held more ground at its peak than 23% 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 median17 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 54% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record22
has more rulers on record than 92% 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 0 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.
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, 1174 – 1665, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1314, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q1311219 (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.