State · 1527 – 1813

Banten Sultanate

A state of 1527 – 1813 — 286 years in East and Southeast Asia. It was replaced by Bantam Presidency. The atlas records 3 things within it — people 3. Its line of rulers holds 11 people, 8 with dated terms.

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

Stood: 286 years; 1527 – 1813
Rulers: 11; the Sultan of Banten
Most ground: 85,200 km²; in 1572
Within it: 3; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Banten Sultanate in 1572, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Banten Sultanate in 1572, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 85,200 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.

Banten Sultanate in 1529, 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.

Banten Sultanate in 1572, 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.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

After it

Bantam Presidency · replaced by

Rulers

The line of Sultan of Banten.

died in officeleft alive by a regular road

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Maulana Hasanuddin	1552 – 1570	18 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Maulana Yusuf	1570 – 1580	10 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Maulana Muhammad	1580 – 1596	16 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Abu al-Mafakhir of Banten	1596 – 1651	55 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Ageng Tirtayasa of Banten	1651 – 1683	32 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	grandchild
Abu an-Nasr	1683 – 1687	4 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Abu al-Fadhl	1687 – 1690	3 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Maulana Muhammad Shafiuddin	1809 – 1813	4 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone

11 rulers, 8 with terms dated as terms, covering 1552 – 1813. Median reign 13 years. 0 of 7 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.

9,900 km² in 1537, 63,900 km² in 1807; at its largest 85,200 km² in 1577. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

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

flag, undatedFlag of Banten · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Jaume Ollé

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.

1500 – 15991 row

Abu al-Mafakhir of Banten · ruler · 1596 – 1651

1600 – 16991 row

Ageng Tirtayasa of Banten · ruler · 1631 – 1692

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 stood286 years
stood longer than 72% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held85,200 km²
held more ground at its peak than 42% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median16 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 51% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record11
has more rulers on record than 83% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 0 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1498 – 1842, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1572, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q734867 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.