The Western Chalukya Empire ruled most of the western Deccan, South India, between the 10th and 12th centuries. This Kannadiga dynasty is sometimes called the Kalyani Chalukya after its regal capital at Kalyani, today's Basavakalyan in the modern Bidar District of Karnataka state, and alternatively the Later Chalukya from its theoretical relationship to the sixth-century Chalukya dynasty of Badami. Prior to the rise of the Western and Eastern Chalukyas, the Rashtrakuta Empire of Manyakheta controlled most of the 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 ruler of the Paramara dynasty of Malwa, Tailapa II, a feudatory of the Rashtrakuta dynasty ruling from Bijapur region, defeated his overlords and made Manyakheta his capital. The dynasty quickly rose to power and grew into an empire under Someshvara I who moved the capital to Kalyani.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1889:

The Treaty of Wuchale was signed, ending the Italo-Ethiopian War, but differences in translation later led to another war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo-Ethiopian_War_of_1887%E2%80%931889

1964:

Vietnam War: An explosion caused by Viet Cong commandos led USNS Card to sink in the port of Saigon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_USNS_Card

1999:

Mireya Moscoso became the first woman to be elected President of Panama. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mireya_Moscoso

2014:

Two mudslides in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, killed at least 350 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Badakhshan_mudslides

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

smell the barn: (intransitive, chiefly US, idiomatic) To act with renewed energy or speed or to experience heightened anticipation as one approaches a destination, goal, or other desired outcome. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/smell_the_barn

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

The true philosophical Act is annihilation of self (Selbsttodtung); this is the real beginning of all Philosophy; all requisites for being a Disciple of Philosophy point hither. This Act alone corresponds to all the conditions and characteristics of transcendental conduct.   --Novalis https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Novalis