State · 1011 – 1215

Ghurid dynasty

A state of 1011 – 1215 — 204 years in South Asia. It was replaced by Delhi Sultanate. The atlas records 4 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 3. Its line of rulers holds 3 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: 204 years; 1011 – 1215
Rulers: 3; the sultan
Most ground: 2.15 million km²; in 1202
Within it: 4; recorded rows

Map: Ghurid dynasty in 1202, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Ghurid dynasty in 1202, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 2.15 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.

Ghurid dynasty in 1152, 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.

Ghurid dynasty in 1202, 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, 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

Delhi Sultanate · replaced by · 1206 – 1526

Rulers

The line of sultan.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in office

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Malik Amir Suri	1000 – 1011	11 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Ala al-Din Husayn	1149 – 1161	12 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Muhammad of Ghor	1173 – 1206	33 years	killedWikidata's manner of death	nephew or niece

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1000 – 1206. Median reign 12 years. 0 of 2 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.

153,000 km² in 1161, 2.12 million km² in 1201; at its largest 2.12 million km² in 1201. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

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.

1100 – 11994 rows · 1 wars and battles

Muhammad of Ghor · ruler · 1144 – 1206
Minhaj-i Siraj Juzjani · writer · 1193 – 1260
Ala al-Din Husayn · ruler · 1110 – 1161
Second Battle of Tarain · battle · 1192

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 stood204 years
stood longer than 63% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held2,145,300 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.
How long a reign lasted, at the median12 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 41% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% 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, 991 – 1235, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1202, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q199443 (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.