High Middle Ages · South Asia · Politics
1089
Chola maritime power continues
1089
Kulottunga I, a grandson of Rajendra Chola, combined the Chola and Eastern Chalukya throne and resumed diplomatic contacts with Song China. Tamil merchant guilds under his patronage operated across Southeast Asia. It was the final phase of the Chola thalassocracy before internal problems would end it in the following century.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.