State · 1072 – 1235

Sena dynasty

A state of 1072 – 1235 — 163 years in South Asia. Its line of rulers holds 5 people.

Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 1072 to 1235, 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: 163 years; 1072 – 1235
Rulers: 5; the King of Sena dynasty
Most ground: 257,700 km²; in 1139

Map: Sena dynasty in 1139, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Sena dynasty in 1139, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 257,700 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.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

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

ending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Hemanta Sena	1095 – 1096	1 year	ending not on record
Vijay Sena	1096 – 1159	63 years	ending not on record	child
Ballāla Sena	1159 – 1179	20 years	ending not on record	child
Lakshman Sen	1178 – 1206	28 years	ending not on record	child
Vishwarup Sen	1206 – 1225	19 years	ending not on record	child

5 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 1095 – 1225. Median reign 20 years. 1 of 4 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.

257,100 km² in 1072, 254,400 km² in 1235; at its largest 257,700 km² in 1142. 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 stood163 years
stood longer than 57% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held257,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 64% 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 median20 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 62% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record5
has more rulers on record than 64% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1056 – 1251, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1139, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q2428714 (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.