State · 1229 – 1574

Hafsid dynasty

A state of 1229 – 1574 — 345 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It followed Almohad Caliphate. The atlas records 27 things within it — wars and battles 6 · people 21. Its line of rulers holds 23 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: 345 years; 1229 – 1574
Rulers: 23; the Hafsid sultan
Most ground: 224,300 km²; in 1344
Within it: 27; recorded rows

Map: Hafsid dynasty in 1344, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Hafsid dynasty in 1344, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 224,300 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.

Hafsid dynasty in 1344, 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.

Hafsid dynasty in 1556, 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

Almohad Caliphate · follows · 1121 – 1269

Rulers

The line of Hafsid sultan.

deposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending 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
Abd-Allah	1224 – 1228	4 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Abu Zakariya Yahya	1229 – 1249	20 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Muhammad I al-Mustansir	1249 – 1277	28 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Yahya II al-Wathiq	1276 – 1279	3 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Abu Ishaq Ibrahim I	1279 – 1283	4 years	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Abu Hafs Umar bin Yahya	1284 – 1295	11 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Abu Asida Muhammad II	1295 – 1309	14 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Abu Yahya Abu Bakr ash-Shahid	1309 – 1309	under a year	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Abu-l-Baqa Khalid An-Nasr	1309 – 1311	2 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Abu Yahya Abu Bakr II	1318 – 1350	32 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	sibling
Abu Hafs Umar ben Abi Bakr	1346 – 1349	3 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	child
Al-Fadl Àhmad	1349 – 1350	1 year	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Abu Ishaq Ibrahim II	1350 – 1369	19 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Abu-l-Baqà Khàlid	1369 – 1371	2 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Abu al-Abbas Ahmad II	1371 – 1394	23 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Abu 'Amr 'Uthman	1435 – 1488	53 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Abu Zakariya Yahya IV	1488 – 1489	1 year	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	grandchild
Abd-al-Mumin ibn Ibrahim	1489 – 1490	1 year	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Abu Yahya Zakariya	1490 – 1494	4 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death
Abu Abdallah Muhammad IV al-Mutawakkil	1493 – 1526	33 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	another recorded relative
Abu Abdallah Muhammad V al-Hasan	1526 – 1543	17 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Abu al-Abbas Ahmad III	1543 – 1573	30 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Abu Abdallah Muhammad VI ibn al-Hasan	1573 – 1574	1 year	left office aliveread off the dates alone	sibling

23 rulers, 23 with terms dated as terms, covering 1224 – 1574. Median reign 4 years. 4 of 22 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.

224,100 km² in 1254, 173,100 km² in 1554; at its largest 224,200 km² in 1304. 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.

1200 – 129911 rows · 1 wars and battles

Eighth Crusade · battle · 1270
Muhammad I al-Mustansir · ruler · 1228 – 1277
Abu Zakariya Yahya · ruler · 1203 – 1249
Yahya II al-Wathiq · ruler · 1249 – 1280
Abu Yahya Abu Bakr II · ruler · 1293 – 1346
Abu Hafs Umar bin Yahya · ruler · 1245 – 1295
Abu Ishaq Ibrahim I · ruler · 1234 – 1283
Abu Yahya Abu Bakr ash-Shahid · ruler · 1280 – 1309

and 3 more in the atlas.

1300 – 13997 rows · 1 wars and battles

Ibn Khaldun · philosopher · 1332 – 1406
Barbary Crusade · war · 1390
Abu al-Abbas Ahmad II · ruler · 1329 – 1394
Abu Ishaq Ibrahim II · ruler · 1336 – 1369
Abu-l-Baqà Khàlid · ruler · 1360 – 1371
Al-Fadl Àhmad · ruler · 1310 – 1350
Abu Hafs Umar ben Abi Bakr · ruler · 1310 – 1347

1400 – 14991 row

Abu 'Amr 'Uthman · ruler · 1418 – 1488

1500 – 15998 rows · 4 wars and battles

Battle of Djerba · battle · 1560
Conquest of Tunis · battle · 1534
Siege of Tripoli · battle · 1551
Abu Abdallah Muhammad V al-Hasan · ruler · 1505 – 1549
Abu al-Abbas Ahmad III · ruler · 1505 – 1575
Abu Abdallah Muhammad IV al-Mutawakkil · ruler · 1500 – 1526
Spanish conquest of Tripoli · battle · 1510
Abu Abdallah Muhammad VI ibn al-Hasan · ruler · 1550 – 1594

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 stood345 years
stood longer than 77% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held224,300 km²
held more ground at its peak than 60% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century0.3
had more wars on record per century than 90% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median4 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 13% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record23
has more rulers on record than 93% 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 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.

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, 1194 – 1609, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1344, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q752662 (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.