State · 642 – 760
Dabuyid dynasty
A state of 642 – 760 — 118 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It followed Sasanian Empire. The atlas records 5 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 4. Its line of rulers holds 4 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
- 118 years
- 642 – 760
- Rulers
- 4
- the Spahbed of Tabaristan
- Most ground
- 64,800 km²
- in 644
- Within it
- 5
- recorded rows
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
- Sasanian Empire · follows · 224 – 651
Rulers
The line of Spahbed of Tabaristan.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gil Gavbara | 642 – 660 | 18 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Dabuya | 660 – 712 | 52 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Farrukhan the Great | 712 – 728 | 16 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Khurshid of Tabaristan | 740 – 761 | 21 years | died by suicideWikidata's manner of death | grandchild |
4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 642 – 761. Median reign 19.5 years. 0 of 3 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.
64,800 km² in 652, 64,400 km² in 752; at its largest 64,800 km² in 652. 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.
600 – 6993 rows
- Farrukhan the Great · ruler · 601 – 728
- Gil Gavbara · ruler · 650 – 660
- Dabuya · ruler · 601 – 712
700 – 7992 rows · 1 wars and battles
- Khurshid of Tabaristan · ruler · 734 – 761
- Battle of Marj Ardabil · battle · 730
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 stood118 years
stood longer than 50% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held64,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 37% 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 median21 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 66% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record4
has more rulers on record than 58% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 23 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.
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 118
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 630 – 772, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 644, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q2816439 (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.