Empire848 CE – 1279 · 431 years

Chola Empire

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Overview

The Chola Empire, which is often referred to as the Imperial Cholas, was a medieval thalassocratic empire based in southern India that was ruled by the Chola dynasty, and comprised overseas dominions, protectorates and spheres of influence in southeast Asia.

Wikipedia: Chola Empire·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Reconstructed borders

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
DETAILhistorical-basemaps
SNAPSHOT1000
POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire4

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Chola invasion of Srivijaya1025
World-changing
Chola-Pandya Wars900 CE–1100
Significant · 500K dead
Chola Maritime Expansion Wars985 CE–1070
Significant · 300K dead
Chola Conquest of Anuradhapura993 CE
Significant

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 848 CE and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Chola Empire (848 CE – 1279). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/asia-chola-empire · Sources & methodology