State · 1532 – 1673
Thanjavur Nayak kingdom
A state of 1532 – 1673 — 141 years in South Asia. It replaced Vijayanagara Empire. It was replaced by Thanjavur Maratha kingdom.
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- Stood
- 141 years
- 1532 – 1673
- Most ground
- 14,800 km²
- in 1572
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
After it
- Thanjavur Maratha kingdom · replaced by · 1674 – 1855
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.
14,700 km² in 1542, 14,800 km² in 1673; at its largest 14,800 km² in 1572. 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 stood141 years
stood longer than 54% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held14,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 18% 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: 1 cause 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.
Theories that apply to its ending
Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.
Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 141
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1518 – 1687, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1572, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q1588434 (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.