State · 1071 – 1178

Danishmendids

A state of 1071 – 1178 — 107 years in the Middle East and North Africa. Its line of rulers holds 2 people.

Wikidata's English label: Danishmendid dynasty.

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

Stood: 107 years; 1071 – 1178
Rulers: 2; the Melik of the Danishmends
Most ground: 85,700 km²; in 1152

Map: Danishmendids in 1152, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Danishmendids in 1152, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 85,700 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.

Danishmendids in 1094, 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.

Danishmendids in 1152, 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

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

ending 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
Danishmend Gazi	1075 – 1085	10 years	ending not on record
Gazi Gümüshtigin	1084 – 1104	20 years	ending not on record	child

2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1075 – 1104. Only 29 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 1 of 1 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.

70,900 km² in 1101, 41,700 km² in 1178; at its largest 85,700 km² in 1161. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

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 stood107 years
stood longer than 48% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held85,700 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.
Rulers on record2
has more rulers on record than 34% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

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 107

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1060 – 1189, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1152, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q846670 (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.