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State · 908 – 1021

Kingdom of Vaspurakan

A state of 908 – 1021 — 113 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It followed Bagratid Armenia. It was followed by Byzantine Empire. 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
113 years
908 – 1021
Rulers
6
the King
Most ground
41,800 km²
in 947
Map: Kingdom of Vaspurakan in 947, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Kingdom of Vaspurakan in 947, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 41,800 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 BCE110002000Bagratid Armenia: 884 – 1045Byzantine Empire: 285 – 1453Kingdom of Vaspurakan: 908 – 1021

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

After it

Rulers

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

Gagik I of Vaspurakan · 908 – 937 · no death date to read the end againstDerenik-Ashot of Vaspurakan · 943 – 958 · no death date to read the end againstAbusahl-Hamazasp of Vaspurakan · 959 – 968 · no death date to read the end againstAshot-Sahak of Vaspurakan · 969 – 1003 · no death date to read the end againstGurgen-Khachik of Vaspurakan · 991 – 1003 · no death date to read the end againstSeneqerim-Hovhannes of Vaspurakan · 1003 – 1021 · no death date to read the end against92094096098010001020
ending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Gagik I of Vaspurakan908 – 93729 yearsending not on record
Derenik-Ashot of Vaspurakan943 – 95815 yearsending not on recordchild
Abusahl-Hamazasp of Vaspurakan959 – 9689 yearsending not on record
Ashot-Sahak of Vaspurakan969 – 100334 yearsending not on record
Gurgen-Khachik of Vaspurakan991 – 100312 yearsending not on recordsibling
Seneqerim-Hovhannes of Vaspurakan1003 – 102118 yearsending not on recordsibling

6 rulers, 6 with terms dated as terms, covering 908 – 1021. Median reign 16.5 years. 1 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.

92094096098010001020

41,500 km² in 918, 40,900 km² in 1021; at its largest 41,800 km² in 948. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

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 stood113 years

    stood longer than 49% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held41,800 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 32% 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 median18 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 56% 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: 1 cause the record names and 2 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.

Bagratid Armenia · Linked · 884 – 1045Bagratid ArmeniaKingdom of Vaspurakan · 908 – 1021Kingdom of VaspurakanByzantine Empire · Linked · 285 – 1453Byzantine Empire5001000
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; 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 113

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q5228183 (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.