Successor to Gelgel, the kingdom of Klungkung was founded in 1686 when the Dewa Agung line established a new court (Puri Semarapura) north of the ruined Gelgel. Its ruler was first in rank among the nine Balinese kingdoms, holding a sacral paramountcy though little direct power over the others. It was the last Balinese kingdom to fall, destroyed in the Dutch puputan (mass ritual suicide-in-battle) of 1908.
Destroyed by the Dutch in the puputan of 1908, the final act of the conquest of Bali.
The definitive study of Klungkung, the Dewa Agung and the 1908 puputan (Open Library /works/OL3494345W).