State · 1375 – 1468

Qara Qoyunlu

A state of 1375 – 1468 — 93 years in the Middle East and North Africa. The atlas records 2 things within it — people 2. Its line of rulers holds 6 people.

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

Stood: 93 years; 1375 – 1468
Rulers: 6; the shah
Most ground: 516,400 km²; in 1440
Within it: 2; recorded rows

Map: Qara Qoyunlu in 1440, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Qara Qoyunlu in 1440, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 516,400 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 Qoyunlu in 1375, 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.

Qara Qoyunlu in 1440, 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.

Rulers

The line of shah.

died in officeending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Bayram Khwaja	1374 – 1378	4 years	ending not on record
Qara Yusuf	1389 – 1420	31 years	ending not on record	grandchild
Qara Iskander	1421 – 1429	8 years	ending not on record	child
Abu Said	1430 – 1430	under a year	ending not on record	sibling
Jahan Shah	1438 – 1467	29 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Hasan Ali	1467 – 1468	1 year	ending not on record	child

6 rulers, 6 with terms dated as terms, covering 1374 – 1468. Median reign 6 years. 0 of 5 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.

338,600 km² in 1375, 516,400 km² in 1465; at its largest 516,400 km² in 1445. 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.

1300 – 13991 row

Jahan Shah · ruler · 1397 – 1467

1400 – 14991 row

Shaykh Junayd · ruler · 1429 – 1460

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 stood93 years
stood longer than 45% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held516,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 75% 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 median8 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 29% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record6
has more rulers on record than 69% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause 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.

in the article

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 93

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1365 – 1478, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1440, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q324470 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.