State · 1215 – 1465

Marinid dynasty

A state of 1215 – 1465 — 250 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Almohad Caliphate. It was replaced by Wattasid dynasty. The atlas records 26 things within it — wars and battles 2 · people 23 · works and ideas 1. Its line of rulers holds 22 people. Its own article says it was partitioned.

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

Stood: 250 years; 1215 – 1465
Rulers: 22; the sultan
Most ground: 738,300 km²; in 1352
Within it: 26; recorded rows

Map: Marinid dynasty in 1352, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Marinid dynasty in 1352, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 738,300 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.

Marinid dynasty in 1250, 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.

Marinid dynasty in 1352, 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.

Before it

Almohad Caliphate · replaces · 1121 – 1269

After it

Wattasid dynasty · replaced by · 1472 – 1554

How it ended, as its article says

Partitioned. Read from the article's section “History - Decline” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

The county was divided and political anarchy set in, with different viziers and foreign powers supporting different factions.

One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rulers

The line of sultan.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Abu Yahya ibn Abd al-Haqq	1244 – 1258	14 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death
Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd al-Haqq	1259 – 1286	27 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	sibling
Abu Yaqub Yusuf an-Nasr	1286 – 1307	21 years	killedWikidata's manner of death	child
Abu Thabit 'Amir	1307 – 1308	1 year	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	child
Abu al-Rabi Sulayman	1308 – 1310	2 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	sibling
Abu Sa'id Uthman II	1310 – 1331	21 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death
Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Uthman	1331 – 1348	17 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Abu Inan Faris	1348 – 1358	10 years	killedWikidata's manner of death	child
Muhammad II ibn Faris	1358 – 1358	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Abu Bakr ibn Faris	1358 – 1359	1 year	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Ibrahim ibn Ali Abu Salim	1359 – 1361	2 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Tashfin ibn Ali	1361 – 1362	1 year	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	sibling
Muhammad II ibn Faris	1362 – 1366	4 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Abu Faris Abd al-Aziz I	1366 – 1372	6 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	sibling
Muhammad III ibn Abd al-Aziz	1372 – 1374	2 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Abu al-Abbas Ahmad al-Mustansir	1374 – 1384	10 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Musa ibn Faris al-Mutawakkil	1384 – 1386	2 years	killedWikidata's manner of death
Abu Zayyan Muhammad IV	1386 – 1386	under a year	ending not on record
Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Wathiq	1386 – 1387	1 year	ending not on record
Abu al-Abbas Ahmad al-Mustansir	1387 – 1393	6 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	nephew or niece
Abd al-Aziz II ibn Ahmad II	1393 – 1396	3 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Abdallah ibn Ahmad II	1396 – 1398	2 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Abu Said Uthman III	1398 – 1420	22 years	killedWikidata's manner of death	sibling
Abd al-Haqq II	1420 – 1465	45 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child

22 rulers, 22 with terms dated as terms, covering 1244 – 1465. Median reign 3.5 years. 4 of 23 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.

389,000 km² in 1255, 388,700 km² in 1465; at its largest 738,300 km² in 1355. 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.

1200 – 12999 rows

Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd al-Haqq · ruler · 1212 – 1286
Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Uthman · ruler · 1297 – 1351
Ibn 'Idhari · writer · 1201 – 1299
Abu Yaqub Yusuf an-Nasr · ruler · 1230 – 1307
Ibn Abi Zar · writer · 1250 – 1326
Abu Yahya ibn Abd al-Haqq · ruler · 1207 – 1258
Abu Sa'id Uthman II · ruler · 1276 – 1331
Abu Thabit 'Amir · ruler · 1284 – 1308

and 1 more in the atlas.

1300 – 139914 rows

Lanzarote · discovery · 1312
Abu Inan Faris · ruler · 1329 – 1358
Abu Said Uthman III · ruler · 1383 – 1420
Muhammad II ibn Faris · ruler · 1338 – 1366
Abdallah ibn Ahmad II · ruler · 1378 – 1398
Ibrahim ibn Ali Abu Salim · ruler · 1335 – 1361
Muhammad III ibn Abd al-Aziz · ruler · 1368 – 1374
Abd al-Aziz II ibn Ahmad II · ruler · 1375 – 1396

and 6 more in the atlas.

1400 – 14993 rows · 2 wars and battles

Portuguese conquest of Ceuta · battle · 1415
Abd al-Haqq II · ruler · 1419 – 1465
Battle of Tangier · battle · 1437

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 stood250 years
stood longer than 69% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held738,300 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 median4 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 13% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record22
has more rulers on record than 92% 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 1 result, 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, 1190 – 1490, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1352, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q582861 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.