State · 1235 – 1556
Kingdom of Tlemcen
A state of 1235 – 1556 — 321 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It was replaced by Regency of Algiers. The atlas records 12 things within it — wars and battles 2 · people 10. Its line of rulers holds 31 people. Its own article says it was conquered.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 321 years
- 1235 – 1556
- Rulers
- 31
- the ruler
- Most ground
- 125,100 km²
- in 1521
- Within it
- 12
- recorded rows
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.
After it
- Regency of Algiers · replaced by · 1516 – 1830
How it ended, as its article says
Conquered, 1551. Read from the article's section “History - Decline (late 14th to 16th centuries)” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.
Tlemcen was captured in 1551 by the Ottomans of the Regency of Algiers, led by Hassan Pasha.
One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rulers
The line of ruler.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yaghmurasen ibn Zyan | 1236 – 1283 | 47 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Abu Sa'id Uthman I, Abd al-Wadid | 1283 – 1303 | 20 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | child |
| Abu Zayyan Muhammad I | 1304 – 1308 | 4 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Abu Hammu Musa I | 1308 – 1318 | 10 years | killedWikidata's manner of death | sibling |
| Abu Tashfin Abd al-Rahman I | 1318 – 1337 | 19 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Abu Said Uthman II | 1348 – 1352 | 4 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Abu Thabid I | 1352 – 1352 | under a year | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | sibling |
| Abu Zayyan II ibn Uthman | 1360 – 1360 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Abu Hammu Musa II | 1360 – 1370 | 10 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Abu Zayyan II ibn Uthman | 1370 – 1372 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | grandchild |
| Abu Hammu Musa II | 1372 – 1383 | 11 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Abu Zayyan II ibn Uthman | 1383 – 1384 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | grandchild |
| Abu Zayyan II ibn Uthman | 1387 – 1387 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Abu Tashufin II | 1389 – 1393 | 4 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | parent |
| Abu Thabid II | 1393 – 1393 | under a year | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | child |
| Abul Hadjdjadj I | 1393 – 1393 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Abu Zayyan II ibn Musa | 1394 – 1399 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | sibling |
| Abu Muhammad Abdullah I | 1397 – 1402 | 5 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | sibling |
| Abu Abdallah I | 1400 – 1411 | 11 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | sibling |
| Abd er Rahman I bin Abu Muh | 1411 – 1411 | under a year | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Said I bin Abu Tashufin | 1411 – 1412 | 1 year | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | sibling |
| Abu Malek I | 1411 – 1424 | 13 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | sibling |
| Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad II | 1424 – 1428 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | nephew or niece |
| Abu Malek I | 1428 – 1430 | 2 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad II | 1430 – 1430 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | nephew or niece |
| Abu Abbas Ahmad I | 1430 – 1462 | 32 years | died in battleWikidata's manner of death | |
| Abu Abdallah III | 1462 – 1468 | 6 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | child |
| Abu Tashufin III | 1468 – 1468 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | child |
| Abu Abdallah IV | 1468 – 1504 | 36 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | sibling |
| Abu Tashufin III | 1470 – 1470 | under a year | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | sibling |
| Abu Abdallah V | 1504 – 1516 | 12 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | nephew or niece |
| Abu Zayyan III | 1516 – 1516 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | sibling |
| Abu Hammu III | 1516 – 1518 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Abu Zayyan III | 1518 – 1518 | under a year | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | nephew or niece |
| Abu Hammu III | 1518 – 1519 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Abu Sarhan Mas'ud | 1519 – 1519 | under a year | ending not on record | sibling |
| Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh II | 1519 – 1524 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | sibling |
| Abu Abdallah VI | 1524 – 1542 | 18 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | child |
| Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh II | 1528 – 1540 | 12 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | parent |
| Abu Abdallah VI | 1540 – 1540 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | child |
| Abu Zayyan IV | 1540 – 1544 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | sibling |
| Abu Abdallah VI | 1543 – 1543 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | sibling |
| Abu Zayyan IV | 1544 – 1550 | 6 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | sibling |
| Al Hassan ben Abu Muh | 1550 – 1555 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | sibling |
31 rulers, 31 with terms dated as terms, covering 1236 – 1555. Median reign 4 years. 8 of 43 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.
125,100 km² in 1535. 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.
1200 – 12995 rows
- Yaghmurasen ibn Zyan · ruler · 1200 – 1283
- Abu Hammu Musa I · ruler · 1266 – 1318
- Abu Tashfin Abd al-Rahman I · ruler · 1293 – 1337
- Abu Sa'id Uthman I, Abd al-Wadid · ruler · 1233 – 1304
- Abu Zayyan Muhammad I · ruler · 1263 – 1308
1300 – 13995 rows · 1 wars and battles
- Abu Hammu Musa II · ruler · 1324 – 1389
- Crusade of Tedelis · war · 1398
- Abu Said Uthman II · ruler · 1320 – 1352
- Abu Thabid I · ruler · 1320 – 1352
- Abu Tashufin II · ruler · 1351 – 1393
1400 – 14991 row
- Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh II · ruler · 1451 – 1540
1500 – 15991 row · 1 wars and battles
- Fall of Tlemcen · battle · 1518
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 stood321 years
stood longer than 75% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held125,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 50% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century0.3
had more wars on record per century than 90% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median4 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 13% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record31
has more rulers on record than 95% 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.
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, 1203 – 1588, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1521, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q17030701 (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.