Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1100 – 1900

Kanem–Bornu Empire

A state of 1100 – 1900 — 800 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Kanem Empire. The atlas records 1 thing within it — people 1. Its line of rulers holds 5 people, 4 with dated terms.

  • Wikidata's English label: Kanem-Bornu 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
800 years
1100 – 1900
Rulers
5
the queen regnant
Most ground
340,700 km²
in 1579
Within it
1
recorded row
Symbols
2
on record, with years
Map: Kanem–Bornu Empire in 1579, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Kanem–Bornu Empire in 1579, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 340,700 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.
Kanem–Bornu Empire in 1072, first mapped

1072 · first mapped · 20,200 km²

Kanem–Bornu Empire in 1579, at its largest

1579 · at its largest · 340,700 km²

Kanem–Bornu Empire in 1885, last mapped

1885 · last mapped · 229,200 km²

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

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Kanem Empire: 700 – 1376Kanem–Bornu Empire: 1100 – 1900

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

Rulers

The line of queen regnant.

Idris Alooma · 1570 – 1603 · no death date to read the end againstIbrahim III · 1618 – 1625 · no death date to read the end againstIbrahim IV of Bornu · 1817 – 1846 · no death date to read the end againstAli IV Dalatumi · 1846 – 1846 · no death date to read the end against1200140016001800
ending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Idris Alooma1570 – 160333 yearsending not on record
Ibrahim III1618 – 16257 yearsending not on record
Ibrahim IV of Bornu1817 – 184629 yearsending not on record
Ali IV Dalatumi1846 – 1846under a yearending not on record

5 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1570 – 1846. Median reign 18 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.

1200140016001800

20,200 km² in 1100, 228,000 km² in 1875; at its largest 340,700 km² in 1600. 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 of the Bornu Empire
    flag, undatedFlag of the Bornu Empire · Public domain
  • Kanem flag from dulcerta 1339-pt
    flag, undatedKanem flag from dulcerta 1339-pt · CC0

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 – 1199: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other11001200 – 1299: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other12001300 – 1399: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other13001400 – 1499: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other14001500 – 1599: 1 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other15001600 – 1699: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other16001700 – 1799: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other17001800 – 1899: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other18001900 – 1999: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1900

1500 – 15991 row

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 stood800 years

    stood longer than 95% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held340,700 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 68% 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 median29 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 81% 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 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.

Kanem Empire · Linked · 700 – 1376Kanem EmpireKanem–Bornu Empire · 1100 – 1900Kanem–Bornu Empire10001500
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

Wikidata Q1139762 (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.