State · 1225 – 1687

Chagatai Khanate

A state of 1225 – 1687 — 462 years in South Asia. It replaced House of Ögedei and Kingdom of Mangalai. The atlas records 12 things within it — people 12. Its line of rulers holds 13 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: 462 years; 1225 – 1687
Rulers: 13; the khan
Most ground: 2.46 million km²; in 1294
Within it: 12; recorded rows

Map: Chagatai Khanate in 1294, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Chagatai Khanate in 1294, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 2.46 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.

Chagatai Khanate in 1294, 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.

Chagatai Khanate in 1459, last 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.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

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.

Before it

House of Ögedei · replaces · 1200 – 1400
Kingdom of Mangalai · replaces

Rulers

The line of khan.

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda 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
Chagatai Khan	1227 – 1242	15 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Qara Hülegü	1242 – 1246	4 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	grandchild
Yesü Möngke	1246 – 1252	6 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Alghu	1261 – 1266	5 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	nephew or niece
Mubarak Shah	1266 – 1266	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Ghiyas-ud-din Baraq	1266 – 1271	5 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Negübei	1271 – 1272	1 year	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Buqa Temür	1272 – 1282	10 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Duwa	1306 – 1307	1 year	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Könchek	1307 – 1308	1 year	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Kebek	1309 – 1310	1 year	left office aliveread off the dates alone	sibling
Kebek	1318 – 1326	8 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Tarmashirin	1331 – 1334	3 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Buzan	1333 – 1334	1 year	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	nephew or niece

13 rulers, 13 with terms dated as terms, covering 1227 – 1334. Median reign 3.5 years. 2 of 13 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.

2.46 million km² in 1300, 1.54 million km² in 1450; at its largest 2.46 million km² in 1300. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

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.

1200 – 129910 rows

Ghiyas-ud-din Baraq · ruler · 1250 – 1271
Qara Hülegü · ruler · 1221 – 1252
Tarmashirin · ruler · 1250 – 1334
Duwa · ruler · 1282 – 1307
Yesü Möngke · ruler · 1221 – 1251
Alghu · ruler · 1250 – 1266
Mubarak Shah · ruler · 1250 – 1276
Kebek · ruler · 1201 – 1326

and 2 more in the atlas.

1300 – 13991 row

Soyurgatmish · person · 1350 – 1384

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 stood462 years
stood longer than 84% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held2,457,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 93% 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 median4 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 13% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record13
has more rulers on record than 85% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 6 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.

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, 1179 – 1733, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1294, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q487829 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.