State · 1256 – 1335
Ilkhanate
A state of 1256 – 1335 — 79 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It followed Abbasid Caliphate. The atlas records 12 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 11. Its line of rulers holds 12 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
- 1256 – 1335
- Rulers
- 12
- the khan
- Most ground
- 3.94 million km²
- in 1294
- Within it
- 12
- recorded rows
- Symbol
- 1
- on record, with years
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
- Abbasid Caliphate · follows · 750 – 1258
Rulers
The line of khan.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abaqa Khan | 1265 – 1282 | 17 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Arghun | 1284 – 1291 | 7 years | executedWikidata's manner of death | child |
| Gaykhatu | 1291 – 1295 | 4 years | killedWikidata's manner of death | sibling |
| Baydu | 1295 – 1295 | under a year | killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Ghazan I | 1295 – 1304 | 9 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Öljaitü | 1304 – 1316 | 12 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | sibling |
| Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan | 1316 – 1335 | 19 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | child |
| Arpa Ke'un | 1335 – 1336 | 1 year | ending not on record | |
| Musa | 1336 – 1336 | under a year | exiled, imprisoned or confined, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Muhammad Khan (Ilkhan) | 1336 – 1338 | 2 years | ending not on record | |
| Togha Temür | 1338 – 1339 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Suleiman Khan | 1339 – 1344 | 5 years | ending not on record |
12 rulers, 12 with terms dated as terms, covering 1265 – 1344. Median reign 4.5 years. 4 of 11 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.
3.94 million km² in 1296, 3.58 million km² in 1335; at its largest 3.94 million km² in 1296. 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 Ilkhanate · 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.
1200 – 12999 rows
- Ghazan I · ruler · 1271 – 1304
- Abaqa Khan · ruler · 1234 – 1282
- Arghun · ruler · 1258 – 1291
- Öljaitü · ruler · 1280 – 1316
- Baydu · ruler · 1201 – 1295
- Gaykhatu · ruler · 1259 – 1295
- Muhammad Khan (Ilkhan) · ruler · 1251 – 1339
- Suleiman Khan · ruler · 1251 – 1345
and 1 more in the atlas.
1300 – 13993 rows · 1 wars and battles
- Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan · ruler · 1305 – 1335
- Arpa Ke'un · ruler · 1301 – 1336
- Catalan campaign in Asia Minor · battle · 1303 – 1307
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 held3,942,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 96% 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 median5 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 18% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record12
has more rulers on record than 84% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 9 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.
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, 1246 – 1345, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1294, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q178084 (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.