State · 345 – 321 BCE
Nanda Empire
A state of 345 – 321 BCE — 24 years in South Asia. It replaced Magadha, Mahajanapadas and Shaishunaga dynasty. It was replaced by Maurya Empire. The atlas records 1 thing within it — people 1. Its line of rulers holds 2 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
- 24 years
- 345 BCE – 321 BCE
- Rulers
- 2
- the emperor
- Most ground
- 1.56 million km²
- in 333 BCE
- Within it
- 1
- recorded row
- 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
- Magadha · replaces · 1201 – 345 BCE
- Mahajanapadas · replaces · 600 – 345 BCE
- Shaishunaga dynasty · replaces · 413 – 345 BCE
After it
- Maurya Empire · replaced by · 322 – 185 BCE
Rulers
The line of emperor.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mahapadma Nanda | 345 BCE – 329 BCE | 16 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Dhana Nanda | 329 BCE – 321 BCE | 8 years | ending not on record | child |
2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 345 BCE – 321 BCE. Only 24 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 0 of 1 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.
1.56 million km² in 330 BCE, 1.41 million km² in 321 BCE; at its largest 1.56 million km² in 330 BCE. 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.
coin, undatedMauryanCoin · 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.
400 BCE – 301 BCE1 row
- Mahapadma Nanda · ruler · 400 – 329 BCE
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 stood24 years
stood longer than 24% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held1,561,500 km²
held more ground at its peak than 88% 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: 3 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, 355 BCE – 311 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 333 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 Q949268 (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.