State · 1824 – 1895

Gaza Empire

A state of 1824 – 1895 — 71 years in sub-Saharan Africa. It was followed by Amashangana Tribal Authority. 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: 71 years; 1824 – 1895
Rulers: 4; the King of the Gaza Empire

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

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

Amashangana Tribal Authority · followed by

Rulers

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

deposed, abdicated, exiled or removedending 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
Soshangane	1825 – 1858	33 years	ending not on record
Mawewe	1858 – 1861	3 years	ending not on record	child
Mzila	1861 – 1885	24 years	ending not on record	sibling
Mdungazwe Nxumalo	1884 – 1895	11 years	exiled, imprisoned or confined, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child

4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1825 – 1895. Median reign 17.5 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”.

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 stood71 years
stood longer than 40% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
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 median24 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 72% 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 articlelinked

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, 1814 – 1905, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1860, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q3780537 (CC0) · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.