State · 1517 – 1867
Ottoman Egypt
A state of 1517 – 1867 — 350 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It was replaced by Khedivate of Egypt and Second Saudi state. The atlas records 17 things within it — wars and battles 7 · unrest and atrocity 1 · natural disasters 1 · people 7 · works and ideas 1. Its line of rulers holds 3 people.
- Wikidata's English label: Egypt eyalet.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 350 years
- 1517 – 1867
- Rulers
- 3
- the Governor
- Most ground
- 2.70 million km²
- in 1840
- Within it
- 17
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
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.
After it
- Khedivate of Egypt · replaced by · 1867 – 1914
- Second Saudi state · replaced by · 1818 – 1891
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yunus Pasha | 1517 – 1517 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Muhammad Ali of Egypt | 1805 – 1848 | 43 years | ending not on record | |
| Isma'il Pasha of Egypt | 1863 – 1867 | 4 years | ending not on record | grandchild |
3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1517 – 1867. Median reign 4 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.
605,500 km² in 1817, 1.65 million km² in 1842. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of the Wāli of Egypt · CC BY 3.0 · Samhanin .svg/120px-Flag_of_Egypt_(1844%E2%80%931867).svg.png)
flag, undatedFlag of Egypt (1844–1867) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · TRAJAN 117
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.
1700 – 17993 rows · 3 wars and battles
- Battle of the Nile · battle · 1798
- Battle of Abukir · battle · 1799
- Siege of Jaffa · battle · 1799
1800 – 189914 rows · 4 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Abu Simbel · discovery · 1813
- Muhammad Ahmad · commander · 1844 – 1885
- Tewfik Pasha · politician · 1852 – 1892
- Saad Zaghloul · politician · 1859 – 1927
- Sa'id of Egypt · politician · 1822 – 1863
- Ahmed Urabi · politician · 1841 – 1911
- Egyptian–Ottoman War · war · 1839 – 1841
- Battle of Abukir · battle · 1801
and 6 more in the atlas.
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 stood350 years
stood longer than 77% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held2,695,500 km²
held more ground at its peak than 94% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century0.3
had more wars on record per century than 90% 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 record3
has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 0 causes the record names and 2 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.
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, 1482 – 1902, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1840, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q491507 (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.