State · 973 – 1189

Western Chalukya Empire

A state of 973 – 1189 — 216 years in South Asia. It replaced Rashtrakuta Empire. It was replaced by Hoysala Kingdom, Kakatiya dynasty and Seuna (Yadava) dynasty. Its line of rulers holds 1 person.

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

Stood: 216 years; 973 – 1189
Rulers: 1; the Founder of Western Chalukya Empire
Most ground: 756,600 km²; in 1000

Map: Western Chalukya Empire in 1000, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Western Chalukya Empire in 1000, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 756,600 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.

Western Chalukya Empire in 1000, 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.

Western Chalukya Empire in 1177, last 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.

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

Rashtrakuta Empire · replaces · 753 – 982

After it

Kakatiya dynasty · replaced by · 1163 – 1323
Hoysala Kingdom · replaced by · 1026 – 1343
Seuna (Yadava) dynasty · replaced by · 1173 – 1317

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
Somesvara IV	1184 – 1189	5 years	ending not on record

1 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 1184 – 1189. Only 5 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 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.

734,000 km² in 983, 512,200 km² in 1183; at its largest 756,600 km² in 1003. 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 stood216 years
stood longer than 64% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held756,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 80% 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 3 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, 951 – 1211, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1000, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q14624218 (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.