State · 1500 – 1785

Khanate of Bukhara

A state of 1500 – 1785 — 285 years in South Asia. It replaced Timurid Empire and Uzbek Khanate. It was replaced by Durrani Empire, Khanate of Kokand and Emirate of Bukhara. The atlas records 3 things within it — people 3. Its line of rulers holds 6 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: 285 years; 1500 – 1785
Rulers: 6; the Khan of the Bukhara Khanate
Most ground: 766,600 km²; in 1526
Within it: 3; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Khanate of Bukhara in 1526, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Khanate of Bukhara in 1526, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 766,600 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.

Khanate of Bukhara in 1526, 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.

Khanate of Bukhara in 1757, last 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.

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

Uzbek Khanate · replaces · 1428 – 1471
Timurid Empire · replaces · 1370 – 1507

After it

Durrani Empire · replaced by · 1747 – 1826
Khanate of Kokand · replaced by · 1709 – 1876
Emirate of Bukhara · replaced by · 1785 – 1920

Rulers

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

deposed, abdicated, exiled or removedending 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
Abdullah Khan II	1583 – 1598	15 years	ending not on record
Baqi Muhammad	1599 – 1605	6 years	ending not on record
Vali Muhammad Khan	1605 – 1611	6 years	ending not on record	sibling
Imam Quli Khan of Bukhara	1611 – 1644	33 years	ending not on record
Nadr Muhammad Khan	1642 – 1645	3 years	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	sibling
'Abdu'l-'Aziz Khan	1645 – 1680	35 years	ending not on record	child

6 rulers, 6 with terms dated as terms, covering 1583 – 1680. Median reign 10.5 years. 2 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.

711,300 km² in 1520, 265,900 km² in 1785; at its largest 711,300 km² in 1520. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

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

flag, undatedWar flag of Khanate of Bukhara · 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.

1500 – 15991 row

Abdullah Khan II · writer · 1533 – 1598

1600 – 16991 row

Abu al-Fayz Khan · ruler · 1687 – 1747

1700 – 17991 row

Shah Murad · person · 1749 – 1800

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 stood285 years
stood longer than 72% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held766,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 80% 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 median15 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 49% 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.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 2 causes the record names and 3 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.

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, 1471 – 1814, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1526, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q577668 (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.