Pandya Empire

State · 1216–1325 CE · at its largest around 1250 CE

Tamil dynasty of southern India with its capital at Madurai, which revived in the thirteenth century to dominate the south before the Delhi Sultanate's invasions.

On its lands while it lasted

• Chola Empire revived (c. 848–1279 CE): Vijayalaya Chola took Thanjavur around 848, beginning the imperial Chola period in which the dynasty dominated southern India and the Bay of Bengal.
• Nallur (c. 1314 CE): Capital of Jaffna kingdom (1314–1594).

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