Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1368 – 1691

Northern Yuan

A state of 1368 – 1691 — 323 years in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Yuan dynasty. The atlas records 19 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 18. Its line of rulers holds 21 people, 14 with dated terms.

  • Wikidata's English label: Northern Yuan dynasty.

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

Stood
323 years
1368 – 1691
Rulers
21
the khagan
Most ground
3.43 million km²
in 1375
Within it
19
recorded rows
Symbol
1
on record, with years
Map: Northern Yuan in 1375, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Northern Yuan in 1375, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 3.43 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.
Northern Yuan in 1375, at its largest

1375 · at its largest · 3.43 million km²

Northern Yuan in 1422, last mapped

1422 · last mapped · 2.18 million km²

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

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Yuan dynasty: 1271 – 1368Northern Yuan: 1368 – 1691

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

Rulers

The line of khagan.

Toghon Temür · 1368 – 1370 · died in office of natural causesUskhal Khan Tögüs Temür · 1378 – 1388 · killedJorightu Khan Yesüder · 1388 – 1391 · died in office, manner not recordedEngke Khan · 1391 – 1394 · the term ends after the recorded deathElbeg Nigülesügchi Khan · 1394 – 1399 · died in office, manner not recordedGün Temür Khan · 1399 – 1402 · died in office, manner not recordedÖrüg Temür Khan · 1402 – 1408 · died in office, manner not recordedÖljei Temür Khan · 1408 – 1412 · the term ends after the recorded deathDelbeg Khan · 1412 – 1415 · died in office, manner not recordedOyiradai · 1415 – 1425 · died in office, manner not recordedAdai Khan · 1425 – 1438 · died in office, manner not recordedDayan Khan · 1480 – 1517 · killed, the article saysTümen Zasagt Khan · 1558 – 1592 · died in office, manner not recordedLigdan Khan · 1604 – 1634 · died in office of natural causes140015001600
killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Toghon Temür1368 – 13702 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death
Uskhal Khan Tögüs Temür1378 – 138810 yearskilledWikidata's manner of deathchild
Jorightu Khan Yesüder1388 – 13913 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Engke Khan1391 – 13943 yearsthe term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alonechild
Elbeg Nigülesügchi Khan1394 – 13995 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Gün Temür Khan1399 – 14023 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Örüg Temür Khan1402 – 14086 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Öljei Temür Khan1408 – 14124 yearsthe term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Delbeg Khan1412 – 14153 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Oyiradai1415 – 142510 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Adai Khan1425 – 143813 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Dayan Khan1480 – 151737 yearskilled, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Tümen Zasagt Khan1558 – 159234 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Ligdan Khan1604 – 163430 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death

21 rulers, 14 with terms dated as terms, covering 1368 – 1634. Median reign 5.5 years. 2 of 13 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.

13951400140514101415

3.43 million km² in 1393, 2.18 million km² in 1418. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

  • Imperial Seal of the Mongols 1246
    seal, undatedImperial Seal of the Mongols 1246 · Public domain

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.

1300 – 1399: 9 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 8 other13001400 – 1499: 5 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 5 other14001500 – 1599: 5 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 5 other15001600 – 1699: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1600

1300 – 13999 rows · 1 wars and battles

and 1 more in the atlas.

1400 – 14995 rows

1500 – 15995 rows

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 stood323 years

    stood longer than 75% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held3,428,400 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 96% 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 median6 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 22% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record21

    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: 4 causes the record names and 0 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.

Yuan dynasty · Linked · 1271 – 1368Yuan dynastySong dynasty · In the article · 960 · “After eliminating the Song dynasty in 1279, the Yuan dynasty ruled all of China proper for about a century.”Song dynastyJin dynasty (266–420) · In the article · 266 · “Even prior to the Yuan dynasty, the Mongols had ruled Northern China for more than 40 years, since the time they conquered the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty in 1234…”Jin dynasty (266–420)Red Turban Rebellions · In the article · 1351 · “In 1351, the Red Turban Rebellion erupted in the Huai River valley, which saw the rise of Zhu Yuanzhang, a Han peasant, who eventually established the Ming dy…”Red Turban RebellionsNorthern Yuan · 1368 – 1691Northern Yuan50010001500
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

Wikidata Q8959 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.