State · 732 – 771

Kannauj

A state of 732 – 771 — 39 years in South Asia. Its line of rulers holds 1 person.

Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 732 to 771, and those are the years drawn here.

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

Stood: 39 years; 732 – 771
Rulers: 1; the King of Kannauj
Most ground: 574,200 km²; in 741

Map: Kannauj in 741, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Kannauj in 741, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 574,200 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.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

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
Yashovarman	725 – 752	27 years	ending not on record

1 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 725 – 752. Only 27 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 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.

559,300 km² in 732, 570,900 km² in 771; at its largest 574,200 km² in 742. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

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 stood39 years
stood longer than 30% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held574,200 km²
held more ground at its peak than 76% 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.
Rulers on record1
has more rulers on record than 13% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 722 – 781, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 741, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q614890 (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.