State · 1529 – 1737
Madurai Nayak dynasty
A state of 1529 – 1737 — 208 years in South Asia. It replaced Vijayanagara Empire and Pandya dynasty.
- Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 1529 to 1737, and those are the years drawn here.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 208 years
- 1529 – 1737
- Most ground
- 48,400 km²
- in 1713
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
- Vijayanagara Empire · replaces · 1336 – 1646
- Pandya dynasty · replaces · 300 BCE – 1650 CE
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.
48,200 km² in 1529, 48,400 km² in 1737; at its largest 48,400 km² in 1719. 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 stood208 years
stood longer than 64% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held48,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 34% 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: 2 causes 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, 1508 – 1758, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1713, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q1530838 (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.