Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1124 – 1218

Qara Khitai

A state of 1124 – 1218 — 94 years in South Asia. It replaced Liao dynasty. It was replaced by Mongol Empire. The atlas records 6 things within it — people 6. Its line of rulers holds 4 people. Its own article says it was dissolved.

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

Stood
94 years
1124 – 1218
Rulers
4
the emperor
Most ground
2.56 million km²
in 1147
Within it
6
recorded rows
Map: Qara Khitai in 1147, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Qara Khitai in 1147, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 2.56 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.
Qara Khitai in 1147, at its largest

1147 · at its largest · 2.56 million km²

Qara Khitai in 1216, last mapped

1216 · last mapped · 1.69 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 BCE110002000Liao dynasty: 916 – 1125Mongol Empire: 1206 – 1368Qara Khitai: 1124 – 1218

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

After it

How it ended, as its article says

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

Another segment of the Qara-Khitans, in a dynasty founded by Buraq Hajib, survived in Kirman as a vassal of the Mongols, but ceased to exist as an entity during the reign of Öljaitü of the Ilkhanate.

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

Rulers

The line of emperor.

Yelü Dashi · 1124 – 1143 · died in office, manner not recordedYelü Yilie · 1150 – 1163 · died in office, manner not recordedYelü Zhilugu · 1177 – 1211 · left office aliveKuchlug · 1211 – 1218 · killed, the article says1140116011801200
killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular road
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Yelü Dashi1124 – 114319 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Yelü Yilie1150 – 116313 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Yelü Zhilugu1177 – 121134 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alonechild
Kuchlug1211 – 12187 yearskilled, the article saysread from the ruler's own articlein-law

4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1124 – 1218. Median reign 16 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.

1140116011801200

375,700 km² in 1134, 1.69 million km² in 1218; at its largest 2.51 million km² in 1204. 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.

1100 – 1199: 4 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 4 other11001200 – 1299: 1 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other1200

1100 – 11994 rows

1200 – 12991 row

  • Rumi · philosopher · 1207 – 1273

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 stood94 years

    stood longer than 45% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held2,564,600 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 94% 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 record4

    has more rulers on record than 58% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 3 causes the record names and 6 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.

Liao dynasty · Linked · 916 – 1125 · “The Qara Khitai empire, also known as the Western Liao dynasty, was the remnant offshoot of the Khitan-led Liao dynasty.”Liao dynastyJin dynasty (266–420) · In the article · 266 · “From 1114 to 1125, the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty conquered the Liao.”Jin dynasty (266–420)Western Xia · In the article · 1038 · “One of these groups was led by Yelü Dashi, who joined the Liao emperor, Tianzuo, at the border of the Western Xia kingdom.”Western XiaQara Khitai · 1124 – 1218Qara KhitaiMongol Empire · Linked · 1206 – 1368Mongol Empire400600800100012001400
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.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

  • Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling

    Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009

    Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.

    • the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 94

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q862304 (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.