State · 840 – 1212

Kara-Khanid Khanate

A state of 840 – 1212 — 372 years in South Asia. The atlas records 3 things within it — people 3. Its line of rulers holds 6 people. Its own article says it was partitioned by appanages Ülüş system as was.

Wikidata's English label: Karakhanid Khanate.

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

Stood: 372 years; 840 – 1212
Rulers: 6; the khan
Most ground: 1.31 million km²; in 1040
Within it: 3; recorded rows

Map: Kara-Khanid Khanate in 1040, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Kara-Khanid Khanate in 1040, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 1.31 million 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.

Kara-Khanid Khanate in 850, 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.

Kara-Khanid Khanate in 1040, 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

Partitioned by appanages Ülüş system as was. Read from the article's section “History - Conquest of Transoxiana” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

The Karakhanid state was divided into appanages (Ülüş system), as was common of Turkic and Mongol nomads.

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

Rulers

The line of khan.

died in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Bilge Kul Qadir Khan	840 – 893	53 years	ending not on record
Bazir Arslan Khan	893 – 920	27 years	ending not on record	child
Oghulcak Khan	920 – 942	22 years	ending not on record	sibling
Sultan Satuq Bughra Khan	920 – 955	35 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	nephew or niece
Musa Bughra Khan	955 – 958	3 years	ending not on record	child
Uthman ibn Ibrahim	1204 – 1212	8 years	ending not on record

6 rulers, 6 with terms dated as terms, covering 840 – 1212. Median reign 24.5 years. 1 of 5 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.

806,900 km² in 865, 915,900 km² in 1115; at its largest 1.31 million km² in 1040. 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.

800 – 8991 row

Sultan Satuq Bughra Khan · ruler · 859 – 955

900 – 9991 row

Sabuktigin · commander · 942 – 997

1000 – 10991 row

Mahmud al-Kashgari · scientist · 1029 – 1101

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 stood372 years
stood longer than 79% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held1,309,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 87% 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 median27 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 78% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record6
has more rulers on record than 69% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 803 – 1249, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1040, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q494354 (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.