State · 260 – 357
Kushano-Sasanian Kingdom
A state of 260 – 357 — 97 years in South Asia. Its line of rulers holds 3 people.
- Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 260 to 357, and those are the years drawn here.
- Wikidata's English label: Indo-Sassanids.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 97 years
- 260 – 357
- Rulers
- 3
- the Kushanshah of the Kushano-Sasanian Kingdom
- Most ground
- 750,500 km²
- in 260
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peroz I Kushanshah | 245 – 275 | 30 years | ending not on record | |
| Peroz II Kushanshah | 303 – 330 | 27 years | ending not on record | |
| Bahram Kushanshah | 330 – 365 | 35 years | ending not on record |
3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 245 – 365. Median reign 30 years. 0 of 2 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.
750,500 km² in 260, 750,500 km² in 357; at its largest 750,500 km² in 260. 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 stood97 years
stood longer than 46% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held750,500 km²
held more ground at its peak than 80% 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 median30 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 83% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% 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 97
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 250 – 367, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 260, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q1661685 (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.