State · 1527 – 1677

Mạc dynasty

A state of 1527 – 1677 — 150 years in East and Southeast Asia. The atlas records 6 things within it — people 6. Its line of rulers holds 12 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: 150 years; 1527 – 1677
Rulers: 12; the emperor
Most ground: 191,200 km²; in 1529
Within it: 6; recorded rows

Map: Mạc dynasty in 1529, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Mạc dynasty in 1529, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 191,200 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.

Mạc dynasty in 1529, 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.

Mạc dynasty in 1653, last 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.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

The line of emperor.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Mạc Đăng Dung	1527 – 1529	2 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Mạc Thái Tông	1530 – 1540	10 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Mạc Hiến Tông	1540 – 1546	6 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Mạc Tuyên Tông	1546 – 1561	15 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Mạc Mậu Hợp	1562 – 1592	30 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Mạc Toàn	1592 – 1593	1 year	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Mạc Kính Chỉ	1592 – 1593	1 year	ending not on record
Mạc Kính Cung	1592 – 1625	33 years	executed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	sibling
Mạc Kính Khoan	1623 – 1638	15 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Mạc Kính Vũ	1638 – 1677	39 years	ending not on record	child
Mạc Kính Hẻ	1677 – 1681	4 years	ending not on record
Mạc Kính Quang	1681 – 1683	2 years	ending not on record

12 rulers, 12 with terms dated as terms, covering 1527 – 1683. Median reign 8 years. 3 of 11 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.

87,300 km² in 1537, 13,700 km² in 1677; at its largest 87,300 km² in 1537. 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.

1500 – 15995 rows

Mạc Thái Tông · ruler · 1500 – 1540
Mạc Tuyên Tông · ruler · 1550 – 1564
Mạc Mậu Hợp · ruler · 1560 – 1592
Mạc Toàn · ruler · 1585 – 1593
Mạc Kính Khoan · ruler · 1550 – 1638

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 stood150 years
stood longer than 55% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held191,200 km²
held more ground at its peak than 57% 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 median10 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 35% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record12
has more rulers on record than 84% 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 and 1 some of them; 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 150

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1512 – 1692, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1529, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q1317991 (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.