Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 750 – 1174

Pala Empire

A state of 750 – 1174 — 424 years in South Asia. It replaced Gupta Empire. The atlas records 1 thing within it — people 1. Its line of rulers holds 4 people, 3 with dated terms. Its own article says it was dissolved by Anga.

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

Stood
424 years
750 – 1174
Rulers
4
the emperor
Most ground
1.37 million km²
in 825
Within it
1
recorded row
Map: Pala Empire in 825, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Pala Empire in 825, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 1.37 million km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.
Pala Empire in 750, first mapped

750 · first mapped · 132,600 km²

Pala Empire in 825, at its largest

825 · at its largest · 1.37 million km²

Pala Empire in 1152, last mapped

1152 · last mapped · 80,700 km²

The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Gupta Empire: 320 – 550Pala Empire: 750 – 1174

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

How it ended, as its article says

Dissolved by Anga. Read from the article's section “History - First period of decline” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

During his reign, the Pala empire disintegrated into smaller kingdoms like Gauda, Radha, Anga and Vanga.

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

Rulers

The line of emperor.

Dharmapala · 783 – 815 · no death date to read the end againstDevapala · 820 – 850 · no death date to read the end againstGovindapala · 1139 – 1161 · no death date to read the end against80090010001100
ending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Dharmapala783 – 81532 yearsending not on record
Devapala820 – 85030 yearsending not on recordchild
Govindapala1139 – 116122 yearsending not on record

4 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 783 – 1161. Median reign 30 years. 0 of 2 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.

80090010001100

132,600 km² in 750, 93,200 km² in 1150; at its largest 1.37 million km² in 825. 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.

700 – 799: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other700800 – 899: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other800900 – 999: 1 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other9001000 – 1099: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other10001100 – 1199: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1100

900 – 9991 row

  • Atiśa · writer · 982 – 1054

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 stood424 years

    stood longer than 82% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held1,365,100 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.

  • How long a reign lasted, at the median30 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 83% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record4

    has more rulers on record than 58% 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.

Gupta Empire · Linked · 320 – 550Gupta EmpirePala Empire · 750 – 1174Pala Empire40060080010001200
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

Wikidata Q668412 (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.