State · 1670 – 1902

Asante Empire

A state of 1670 – 1902 — 232 years in sub-Saharan Africa. The atlas records 2 things within it — wars and battles 2. Its line of rulers holds 3 people. Its own article says it was replaced.

Wikidata's English label: Ashanti Empire.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 232 years; 1670 – 1902
Rulers: 3; the Asantehemaa
Most ground: 187,600 km²; in 1762
Within it: 2; recorded rows
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Map: Asante Empire in 1762, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Asante Empire in 1762, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 187,600 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Asante Empire in 1702, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Asante Empire in 1762, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

How it ended, as its article says

Replaced, 1902-01-01. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

British forces later burnt and sacked the Asante capital of Kumasi, however, and following the final Asante defeat at the fifth Anglo-Ashanti War, the Asante empire became part of the Gold Coast colony on 1 January 1902.

One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rulers

The line of Asantehemaa.

deposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Osei Tutu	1701 – 1701	under a year	ending not on record
Akyaama	1750 – 1777	27 years	deposed or removedWikidata's end cause on the term
Konadu Yaadom	1778 – 1809	31 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1701 – 1809. Median reign 27 years. 1 of 2 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

33,200 km² in 1710, 153,000 km² in 1890; at its largest 182,100 km² in 1760. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedFlag of Ashanti · Public domain
coat of arms, undatedAshanti Empire Emblem · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Zuanzuanfuwa

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1600 – 16991 row · 1 wars and battles

Assault on Osu · battle · 1678

1800 – 18991 row · 1 wars and battles

Anglo-Ashanti wars · war · 1823 – 1900

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood232 years
stood longer than 67% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held187,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 57% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century0.4
had more wars on record per century than 91% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median27 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 78% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1647 – 1925, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1762, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q722071 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.