State · 1528 – 1946

Johor Sultanate

A state of 1528 – 1946 — 418 years in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Malacca Sultanate. It was replaced by Straits Settlements. The atlas records 6 things within it — wars and battles 5 · treaties 1. Its line of rulers holds 5 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: 418 years; 1528 – 1946
Rulers: 5; the Sultan of Johor
Most ground: 314,600 km²; in 1677
Within it: 6; recorded rows
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Map: Johor Sultanate in 1677, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Johor Sultanate in 1677, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 314,600 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.

Johor Sultanate in 1528, 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.

Johor Sultanate in 1677, 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.

Before it

Malacca Sultanate · replaces · 1400 – 1511

After it

Straits Settlements · replaced by

Rulers

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

ending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Alauddin Riayat Shah II of Johor	1528 – 1564	36 years	ending not on record
Abdul Jalil Shah of Siak	1718 – 1722	4 years	ending not on record
Mahmud Shah III	1770 – 1811	41 years	ending not on record
Abdul Rahman Muazzam Shah	1811 – 1819	8 years	ending not on record	child
Hussein Shah of Johor	1819 – 1835	16 years	ending not on record	sibling

5 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 1528 – 1835. Median reign 16 years. 0 of 4 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.

231,200 km² in 1528, 20,000 km² in 1878; at its largest 314,600 km² in 1678. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedFlag of Johor · Public domain
coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of Johor · 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.

1600 – 16991 row · 1 wars and battles

Fall of Plered · battle · 1677

1700 – 17992 rows · 1 wars and battles

Java War · war · 1741 – 1743
Treaty of Giyanti · treaty · 1755

1800 – 18992 rows · 2 wars and battles

Padri Wars · war · 1803 – 1837
Invasion of Java · war · 1811

1900 – 19991 row · 1 wars and battles

Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse · battle · 1941

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 stood418 years
stood longer than 82% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held314,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 66% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century0.7
had more wars on record per century than 92% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median16 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 51% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record5
has more rulers on record than 64% 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.

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, 1486 – 1988, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1677, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q1150344 (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.