State · 1747 – 1826

Durrani Empire

A state of 1747 – 1826 — 79 years in South Asia. It replaced Khanate of Bukhara and followed Mughal Empire. The atlas records 7 things within it — wars and battles 1 · treaties 1 · people 5. Its line of rulers holds 2 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: 79 years; 1747 – 1826
Rulers: 2; the Shah of the Durrani Empire
Most ground: 2.20 million km²; in 1763
Within it: 7; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Durrani Empire in 1763, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Durrani Empire in 1763, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 2.20 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.

Durrani Empire in 1763, 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.

Durrani Empire in 1822, 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

Mughal Empire · follows · 1526 – 1857
Khanate of Bukhara · replaces · 1500 – 1785

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	To the ruler before
Ali Shah Durrani	1818 – 1818	under a year	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Ayub Shah Durrani	1819 – 1823	4 years	ending not on record	sibling

2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1818 – 1823. Only 5 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. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 1.00, 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.

1.41 million km² in 1757, 884,400 km² in 1826; at its largest 2.20 million km² in 1767. 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.

flag, undatedFlag of Herat until 1842 · 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.

1700 – 17996 rows · 1 wars and battles

Dost Mohammad Khan · politician · 1793 – 1863
Third Battle of Panipat · battle · 1761
Shuja Shah Durrani · person · 1780 – 1842
Zaman Shah Durrani · person · 1770 – 1845
Mahmud Shah Durrani · politician · 1769 – 1829
Treaty of Allahabad · treaty · 1765

1800 – 18991 row

Mohammad Afzal Khan · politician · 1811 – 1867

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 stood79 years
stood longer than 42% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held2,197,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 92% 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.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 7 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.

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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, 1737 – 1836, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1763, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q467627 (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.