Western Chalukya Empire

The Western Chalukya Empire, also called the Kalyani Chalukya dynasty after its capital at Basavakalyan in modern Karnataka, was a Kannada-speaking realm that ruled most of the western Deccan in South India between the tenth and twelfth centuries. It emerged in 973 AD when Tailapa II, previously a feudatory of the Rashtrakutas, defeated his overlords and made Manyakheta his capital, and the empire expanded significantly under Someshvara I, who moved the capital to Kalyani around 1042. At its height under Vikramaditya VI in the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries the empire's territory spread across most of the Deccan between the Narmada River in the north and the Kaveri River in the south, before subordinate feudatories broke away through the later 1100s and the empire collapsed by 1184.