State · 1412 – 1597

Kingdom of Kotte

A state of 1412 – 1597 — 185 years in South Asia. It replaced Kingdom of Gampola. It was replaced by Kingdom of Kandy and Kingdom of Sitawaka. The atlas records 2 things within it — people 2. Its line of rulers holds 9 people. Its own article says it was dissolved.

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

Stood: 185 years; 1412 – 1597
Rulers: 9; the King of Kotte
Within it: 2; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

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

Kingdom of Gampola · replaces

After it

Kingdom of Kandy · replaced by · 1469 – 1815
Kingdom of Sitawaka · replaced by · 1521 – 1594

How it ended, as its article says

Dissolved. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

The Kotte Kingdom was largely dissolved during the Sinhalese-Portuguese War, as it faced attacks from rival Sinhalese kingdoms, the Kingdom of Sitawaka and Kingdom of Kandy.

One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rulers

The line of King of Kotte - the office this state names as its head of state.

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

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Parakramabahu VI	1410 – 1467	57 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Jayabahu II of Kotte	1467 – 1470	3 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Bhuvanekabahu VI of Kotte	1470 – 1478	8 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Parakramabahu VII of Kotte	1478 – 1484	6 years	ending not on record	child
Parakramabahu VIII of Kotte	1484 – 1518	34 years	ending not on record
Dharma Parakramabahu IX of Kotte	1508 – 1528	20 years	ending not on record	child
Vijayabahu VI	1509 – 1521	12 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Bhuvanekabahu VII of Kotte	1521 – 1551	30 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Dharmapala of Kotte	1551 – 1597	46 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	grandchild

9 rulers, 9 with terms dated as terms, covering 1410 – 1597. Median reign 20 years. 3 of 8 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”.

Flag or arms

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

flag, undatedFlag of Kotte · Public domain

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.

1400 – 14991 row

Vijayabahu VI · ruler · 1445 – 1521

1500 – 15991 row

Dharmapala of Kotte · ruler · 1541 – 1597

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 stood185 years
stood longer than 60% 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 median20 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 62% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record9
has more rulers on record than 78% 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.

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, 1393 – 1616, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1505, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q1589163 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.