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State · 1077 – 1231

Khwarazmian Empire

A state of 1077 – 1231 — 154 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It was followed by Nizari Ismaili state. The atlas records 11 things within it — wars and battles 7 · people 4. Its line of rulers holds 5 people. Its own article says it was conquered by Jalal al-Din Mangburni.

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

Stood
154 years
1077 – 1231
Rulers
5
the Shah of the Khwarazmian Empire
Most ground
4.02 million km²
in 1216
Within it
11
recorded rows
Map: Khwarazmian Empire in 1216, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Khwarazmian Empire in 1216, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 4.02 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.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Nizari Ismaili state: 1090 – 1256Khwarazmian Empire: 1077 – 1231

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.

After it

How it ended, as its article says

Conquered by Jalal al-Din Mangburni, 1231. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

A Khwarazmian rump state survived in western Iran until 1231; it was conquered by the Mongols only after the death of Jalal al-Din Mangburni, the last Khwarazmshah.

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

Rulers

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

Anushtegin Gharchai · 1077 – 1097 · no death date to read the end againstMuhammad I of Khwarazm · 1097 – 1127 · no death date to read the end againstIl-Arslan · 1156 – 1172 · no death date to read the end againstTerken Khatun · 1172 – 1200 · no death date to read the end againstJalal al-Din Mangburni · 1220 – 1231 · no death date to read the end against110011501200
ending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Anushtegin Gharchai1077 – 109720 yearsending not on record
Muhammad I of Khwarazm1097 – 112730 yearsending not on recordchild
Il-Arslan1156 – 117216 yearsending not on recordgrandchild
Terken Khatun1172 – 120028 yearsending not on recordin-law
Jalal al-Din Mangburni1220 – 123111 yearsending not on recordgrandchild

5 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 1077 – 1231. Median reign 20 years. 0 of 4 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.

12101215122012251230

2.11 million km² in 1207, 1.32 million km² in 1231; at its largest 4.02 million km² in 1217. 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.

1000 – 1099: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other10001100 – 1199: 1 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other11001200 – 1299: 10 recorded — 7 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 3 other1200

1100 – 11991 row

1200 – 129910 rows · 7 wars and battles

and 2 more in the atlas.

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 stood154 years

    stood longer than 56% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held4,018,000 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 96% 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 median20 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 62% 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: 0 causes the record names and 1 result, 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.

Khwarazmian Empire · 1077 – 1231Khwarazmian EmpireNizari Ismaili state · Linked · 1090 – 1256Nizari Ismaili state1100115012001250
linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending and 1 some of them; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

  • Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling

    Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009

    Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.

    • the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 154

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q63134381 (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.