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[[Image:Western-chalukya-empire-map.svg|left|200px|Extent of Western Chalukya Empire]]
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The '''[[Western Chalukya Empire]]''' ruled most of the [[Deccan Plateau|western deccan]], [[South India]], between the 10th and 12th centuries. This dynasty is sometimes called the ''Kalyani Chalukya'' after its regal capital at Kalyani, today's [[Basavakalyan]] in [[Karnataka]] and alternatively the ''Later Chalukya'' from its theoretical relationship to the sixth century [[Chalukya dynasty]] of [[Badami]]. The dynasty is called Western Chalukyas to differentiate from the contemporaneous [[Eastern Chalukyas]] of [[Vengi]], a separate dynasty. Prior to the rise of these Chalukyas, the [[Rashtrakuta]] empire of [[Manyakheta]] controlled most of deccan and central India for over two centuries. In 973, seeing confusion in the Rashtrakuta empire after a successful invasion of their capital by the [[Paramara dynasty|Paramara]] of [[Malwa]], [[Tailapa II]] a feudatory of the Rashtrakuta ruling from [[Bijapur district, Karnataka|Bijapur]] region defeated his overlords and made Manyakheta his capital. The dynasty quickly rose to power and grew into an empire under [[Somesvara I]] who moved the capital to Kalyani.

For over a century, the two empires of southern India, the Western Chalukyas and the [[Chola dynasty]] of [[Tanjore]] fought many fierce wars to control the fertile region of [[Vengi]]. During these conflicts, the Eastern Chalukyas of Vengi, distant cousins of the Western Chalukyas but related to the Cholas by marriage took sides with the Cholas further complicating the situation. It was only during the rule of [[Vikramaditya VI]] in the late eleventh century that the Western Chalukya empire convincingly eclipsed the Cholas and reached its peak with territories spreading over most of the deccan. Vast areas between the [[Narmada River]] in the north and [[Kaveri River]] in the south came under Chalukya control. During this period the other major ruling families of the Deccan, the [[Hoysalas]], the [[Seuna Yadavas of Devagiri]], the [[Kakatiya dynasty]] and the Southern [[Kalachuris of Mahishmati|Kalachuri]], were subordinates of the Western Chalukyas and gained their independence only when the power of the Chalukya waned during the later half of the twelfth century. ([[Western Chalukya Empire|'''more...''']])

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