Empire750 CE – 1161 · 411 years
Pala Empire
Overview
The Pāla Empire was an empire ruled by the Pala dynasty, an early medieval Indian dynasty. The empire was founded with the election of Gopāla by the chiefs of Gauda in late eighth century CE. The Pala stronghold was located in Bengal and Bihar, which included the major cities of Gauḍa, Vikramapura, Pāṭaliputra, Monghyr, Somapura, Ramavati (Varendra), Tāmralipta and Jagaddala.
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Borders & accuracy
Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.
- SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
- DETAILhistorical-basemaps
- SNAPSHOT850 CE
- POLITY TYPEstate
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Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 750 CE and fits the map to these borders.
Cite as: Pala Empire (750 CE – 1161). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/asia-pala-empire · Sources & methodology