State · 650 – 969

Khazaria

A state of 650 – 969 — 319 years in Europe. The atlas records 2 things within it — people 2. Its line of rulers holds 2 people.

Wikidata's English label: Khazar Khaganate.

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

Stood: 319 years; 650 – 969
Rulers: 2; the Khagan of Khazaria (?)
Most ground: 801,200 km²; in 763
Within it: 2; recorded rows

Map: Khazaria in 763, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Khazaria in 763, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 801,200 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.

Khazaria in 650, 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.

Khazaria in 763, 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.

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
Irbis	650 – 650	under a year	ending not on record
Bulan	740 – 740	under a year	ending not on record

2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 650 – 740. Median reign 0 years. 0 of 1 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.

466,200 km² in 650, 747,900 km² in 969; at its largest 757,000 km² in 725. 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 – 8992 rows

Árpád · person · 845 – 907
Álmos · person · 820 – 895

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 stood319 years
stood longer than 75% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held801,200 km²
held more ground at its peak than 82% 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 median0 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 1% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record2
has more rulers on record than 34% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 4 causes 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.

in the articlelinked

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, 618 – 1001, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 763, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q2090473 (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.