State · 701 – 501 BCE
Kosala
A state of 701 – 501 BCE — 200 years in South Asia. It was followed by Haryanka dynasty. Its line of rulers holds 2 people. Its own article says it was conquered by Magadha.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 200 years
- 701 BCE – 501 BCE
- Rulers
- 2
- the king
- Most ground
- 5,000 km²
- in 600 BCE
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.
After it
- Haryanka dynasty · followed by · 544 – 413 BCE
How it ended, as its article says
Conquered by Magadha, -0500. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.
After a series of wars with neighbouring kingdoms, it was finally defeated and absorbed into the Magadha kingdom in the 5th century BCE.
One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rulers
The line of king.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|
2 rulers, 0 with terms dated as terms. 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.
5,000 km² in 591 BCE, 5,000 km² in 501 BCE; at its largest 5,000 km² in 591 BCE. 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 stood200 years
stood longer than 62% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held5,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 10% 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.
- Rulers on record2
has more rulers on record than 34% 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.
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, 721 BCE – 481 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 600 BCE, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q756854 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · 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.