State · 230 BCE – 220 CE

Satavahana dynasty

A state of 230 BCE – 220 CE — 450 years in South Asia. It replaced Maurya Empire. It was replaced by Pallava dynasty and Vakataka dynasty. Its line of rulers holds 1 person. 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: 450 years; 230 BCE – 220
Rulers: 1; the Raja
Most ground: 892,900 km²; in 106

Map: Satavahana dynasty in 106, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Satavahana dynasty in 106, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 892,900 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.

Satavahana dynasty in 225 BCE, first mapped — 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.

Satavahana dynasty in 106, at its largest — 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

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

Maurya Empire · replaces · 322 – 185 BCE

After it

Vakataka dynasty · replaced by · 250 – 500
Pallava dynasty · replaced by · 275 – 897

How it ended, as its article says

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

After Yajna Satakarni, the dynasty was soon extinguished following the rise of its feudatories, perhaps on account of a decline in central power.

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

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

ending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Simuka	2 – 2	under a year	ending not on record

1 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 2 – 2. 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.

537,000 km² in 205 BCE, 750,200 km² in 220; at its largest 892,900 km² in 120. 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 stood450 years
stood longer than 84% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held892,900 km²
held more ground at its peak than 83% 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 record1
has more rulers on record than 13% 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 2 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.

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, 275 BCE – 265, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 106, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q5257 (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.