State · 30 – 375

Kushan Empire

A state of 30 – 375 — 345 years in South Asia. It was replaced by Gupta Empire and Kidarites. The atlas records 5 things within it — people 5. Its line of rulers holds 11 people, 10 with dated terms.

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

Stood: 345 years; 30 – 375
Rulers: 11; the emperor
Most ground: 2.27 million km²; in 127
Within it: 5; recorded rows

Map: Kushan Empire in 127, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Kushan Empire in 127, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 2.27 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.

Kushan Empire in 43, 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.

Kushan Empire in 127, 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, 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

Gupta Empire · replaced by · 320 – 550
Kidarites · replaced by · 301 – 520

Rulers

The line of emperor.

died in officeending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Kujula Kadphises	30 – 80	50 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Vima Takto	80 – 90	10 years	ending not on record	child
Vima Kadphises	90 – 100	10 years	ending not on record	child
Kanishka	127 – 150	23 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	child
Huvishka	151 – 191	40 years	ending not on record	child
Vasudeva I	191 – 232	41 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Vāsishka	247 – 265	18 years	ending not on record
Kanishka III	268 – 268	under a year	ending not on record
Vasudeva II	275 – 300	25 years	ending not on record	child
Shaka Kushan	300 – 350	50 years	ending not on record

11 rulers, 10 with terms dated as terms, covering 30 – 350. Median reign 24 years. 0 of 9 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.

638,800 km² in 55, 312,700 km² in 330; at its largest 2.27 million km² in 130. 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.

0 – 993 rows

Kanishka · ruler · 78 – 144
Kujula Kadphises · ruler · 20 – 80
Vāsishka · ruler · 1 – 299

200 – 2992 rows

Vasudeva I · ruler · 200 – 201
Kanishka II · ruler · 200 – 299

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 stood345 years
stood longer than 77% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held2,268,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 92% 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 median25 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 75% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record11
has more rulers on record than 83% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 2 causes 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.

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, 5 BCE – 410, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 127, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q25979 (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.