State · 934 – 1062

Buyid dynasty

A state of 934 – 1062 — 128 years in the Middle East and North Africa. The atlas records 6 things within it — people 6. Its line of rulers holds 3 people.

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

Stood: 128 years; 934 – 1062
Rulers: 3; the Amir
Most ground: 1.31 million km²; in 980
Within it: 6; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Buyid dynasty in 980, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Buyid dynasty in 980, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 1.31 million 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.

Buyid dynasty in 936, 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.

Buyid dynasty in 980, 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.

Rulers

The line of Amir.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officea second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Mu'izz al-Dawla	945 – 967	22 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Izz al-Dawla	967 – 978	11 years	executed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child
'Adud al-Dawla	967 – 983	16 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 945 – 983. Only 38 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 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.

471,100 km² in 944, 250,400 km² in 1054; at its largest 1.31 million km² in 984. 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, undatedBuyid Dynasty Banner · Public domain

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.

900 – 9994 rows

'Adud al-Dawla · ruler · 936 – 983
Mu'izz al-Dawla · ruler · 915 – 967
Izz al-Dawla · ruler · 943 – 978
Jalal al-Dawla · person · 990 – 1044

1000 – 10992 rows

Abu Kalijar · person · 1010 – 1048
Musharrif al-Dawla · person · 1003 – 1025

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 stood128 years
stood longer than 52% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held1,310,500 km²
held more ground at its peak than 87% 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.
Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 2 causes the record names and 0 results, 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.

in the articlecoincidence

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

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 128

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 921 – 1075, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 980, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q273874 (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.