Empire1336 – 1646 · 310 years
Vijayanagara Empire
Overview
The Vijayanagara Empire, also known as the Karnata Kingdom, was a late medieval Hindu empire that ruled much of southern India. It was established in 1336 by the brothers Harihara I and Bukka Raya I of the Sangama dynasty.
Wikipedia: Vijayanagara 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
- SNAPSHOT1500
- POLITY TYPEstate
Wars of this empire6
Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.
- Vijayanagara-Bahmani Wars1366–1565Major conflict · 500K dead
- Major conflict · 100K dead
- Bahmani-Vijayanagara Wars1364–1565Significant · 700K dead
- Vijayanagara Wars1336–1565Significant · 500K dead
- Significant
- Vijayanagara Naval Wars1400–1560Regional · 200K dead
Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1336 and fits the map to these borders.
Cite as: Vijayanagara Empire (1336 – 1646). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/vijayanagara-empire · Sources & methodology