State · 1856 – 1889

Majeerteen Sultanate

A state of 1856 – 1889 — 33 years in sub-Saharan Africa. Its line of rulers holds 1 person.

Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 1856 to 1889, and those are the years drawn here.

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

Stood: 33 years; 1856 – 1889
Rulers: 1; the Sultan of Majeerteen
Most ground: 92,000 km²; in 1856

Map: Majeerteen Sultanate in 1856, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Majeerteen Sultanate in 1856, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 92,000 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

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.

ending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Osman Mohamoud (king)	1860 – 1927	67 years	ending not on record

1 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 1860 – 1927. Median reign 67 years. 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.

92,000 km² in 1856, 91,500 km² in 1889; at its largest 92,000 km² in 1856. 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 stood33 years
stood longer than 27% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held92,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 44% 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 median67 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 98% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record1
has more rulers on record than 13% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1846 – 1899, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1856, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q2257830 (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.