State · 1790 – 1932
Kingdom of Jimma
A state of 1790 – 1932 — 142 years in sub-Saharan Africa. Its line of rulers holds 5 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
- 142 years
- 1790 – 1932
- Rulers
- 5
- the king
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
The line of king.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abba Jifar I | 1830 – 1830 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Abba Rebu | 1855 – 1855 | under a year | killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | child |
| Abba Gomol | 1862 – 1862 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Abba Jifar II | 1878 – 1878 | under a year | ending not on record | child |
| Abba Jofir | 1930 – 1932 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | grandchild |
5 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 1830 – 1932. Median reign 0 years. 1 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”.
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 stood142 years
stood longer than 54% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- 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 record5
has more rulers on record than 64% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
Theories that apply to its ending
Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; 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 142
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1776 – 1946, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1861, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q1759078 (CC0) · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.