State · 1630 – 1771

Kalmyk Khanate

A state of 1630 – 1771 — 141 years in Europe. The atlas records 2 things within it — people 2. Its line of rulers holds 4 people. Its own article says it was conquered by Russian Empire.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 141 years; 1630 – 1771
Rulers: 4; the khan
Most ground: 174,800 km²; in 1738
Within it: 2; recorded rows

Map: Kalmyk Khanate in 1738, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Kalmyk Khanate in 1738, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 174,800 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.

Kalmyk Khanate in 1632, 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.

Kalmyk Khanate in 1738, 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.

How it ended, as its article says

Conquered by Russian Empire, 1771. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

The Khanate was annexed by the Russian Empire in 1771.

One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rulers

The line of khan.

died in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Kho Orluk	1628 – 1643	15 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Shukher Daichin	1645 – 1667	22 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Ayuka Khan	1672 – 1690	18 years	ending not on record	grandchild
Ubashi Khan	1761 – 1771	10 years	ending not on record

4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1628 – 1771. Median reign 16.5 years. 0 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”.

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.

162,700 km² in 1640, 174,400 km² in 1771; at its largest 174,800 km² in 1740. 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.

1600 – 16991 row

Shukher Daichin · ruler · 1600 – 1667

1700 – 17991 row

Sheikh Mansur · politician · 1762 – 1794

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 stood141 years
stood longer than 54% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held174,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 55% 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 median18 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 56% 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.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending and 1 some of them; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 141

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1616 – 1785, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1738, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q4210248 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.