State · 1475 – 1548

Demak Sultanate

A state of 1475 – 1548 — 73 years in East and Southeast Asia. Its line of rulers holds 4 people.

Wikidata's English label: Sultanate of Demak.

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

Stood: 73 years; 1475 – 1548
Rulers: 4; the Sultan of Demak
Most ground: 45,700 km²; in 1519
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Demak Sultanate in 1519, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Demak Sultanate in 1519, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 45,700 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.

Demak Sultanate in 1475, 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.

Demak Sultanate in 1519, 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.

killed, executed or dead in battleending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source
Raden Patah	1475 – 1518	43 years	ending not on record
Pati Unus	1518 – 1521	3 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Trenggana	1521 – 1546	25 years	ending not on record
Arya Penangsang	1549 – 1554	5 years	ending not on record

4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1475 – 1554. Median reign 15 years. 1 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.

7,500 km² in 1475, 45,700 km² in 1548; at its largest 45,700 km² in 1525. 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.

coin, undatedMUS Koin Sultan Pangeran Raden Fatah · CC BY 4.0 · Mhatopzz

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 stood73 years
stood longer than 41% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held45,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 33% 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 median25 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 75% 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: 1 cause 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.

in the article

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, 1465 – 1558, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1519, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q49322 (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.