State · 1970 – 1987

Dominion of Fiji

A state of 1970 – 1987 — 17 years in the Americas and Oceania. It was replaced by Fiji. The atlas records 3 things within it — people 3. Its line of rulers holds 7 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: 17 years; 1970 – 1987
Rulers: 7; the Prime Minister of Fiji
Most ground: 21,800 km²; in 1973
Within it: 3; recorded rows
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Map: Dominion of Fiji in 1973, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Dominion of Fiji in 1973, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 21,800 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.

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.

After it

Fiji · replaced by · 1987 – present

Rulers

The line of Prime Minister of Fiji.

deposed, abdicated, exiled or removedleft alive by a regular roada second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source
Robert Sidney Foster	1970 – 1973	3 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Kamisese Mara	1970 – 1987	17 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Elizabeth II	1970 – 1987	17 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
George Cakobau	1973 – 1983	10 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Penaia Ganilau	1983 – 1987	4 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Timoci Bavadra	1987 – 1987	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Kamisese Mara	1987 – 1992	5 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Sitiveni Rabuka	1992 – 1999	7 years	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article

7 rulers, 7 with terms dated as terms, covering 1970 – 1999. Only 29 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 3 of 7 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 0.87, limit 0.6). 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.

21,800 km² in 1975, 21,800 km² in 1987; at its largest 21,800 km² in 1975. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of Fiji · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Simi Tukidia
flag, undatedFlag of Fiji · 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.

1900 – 19993 rows

Timoci Bavadra · ruler · 1934 – 1989
Robert Sidney Foster · ruler · 1913 – 2005
George Cakobau · ruler · 1912 – 1989

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 stood17 years
stood longer than 21% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held21,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 22% 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 record7
has more rulers on record than 73% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 0 causes 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.

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, 1960 – 1997, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1973, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q5291089 (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.