State · 698 – 926

Parhae

A state of 698 – 926 — 228 years in East and Southeast Asia. It was replaced by Goryeo and Liao dynasty. The atlas records 1 thing within it — people 1. Its line of rulers holds 5 people, 4 with dated terms. Its own article says it was conquered by Liao dynasty.

Wikidata's English label: Balhae.

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

Stood: 228 years; 698 – 926
Rulers: 5; the king
Most ground: 486,600 km²; in 911
Within it: 1; recorded row

Map: Parhae in 911, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Parhae in 911, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 486,600 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.

Parhae in 705, 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.

Parhae in 911, 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.

After it

Goryeo · replaced by · 918 – 1392
Liao dynasty · replaced by · 916 – 1125

How it ended, as its article says

Conquered by Liao dynasty, 926. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

Parhae was conquered by the Khitan-led Liao dynasty in 926.

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

Rulers

The line of king.

ending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Mu of Balhae	719 – 737	18 years	ending not on record
King Mun of Balhae	737 – 793	56 years	ending not on record	child
Seon of Balhae	818 – 830	12 years	ending not on record
Dae Inseon	907 – 926	19 years	ending not on record

5 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 719 – 926. Median reign 18.5 years. 0 of 3 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.

125,200 km² in 708, 486,600 km² in 918; at its largest 486,600 km² in 918. 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.

600 – 6991 row

Ko of Parhae · ruler · 645 – 719

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 stood228 years
stood longer than 66% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held486,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 74% 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 median19 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 59% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record5
has more rulers on record than 64% 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 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.

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, 675 – 949, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 911, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q28322 (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.