Significant262 BCE – 261 BCE · 1 year

Kalinga War

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Kalinga · Eastern India

Estimated casualties

100Ksingle estimate · no range published

The conquest of Kalinga by Ashoka, leading to his conversion to Buddhism and renunciation of warfare.

Belligerents2

Maurya Empire
Kalinga

ON THE MAPMaurya Empire

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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