State · 899 – 1071

Qarmatians

A state of 899 – 1071 — 172 years in the Middle East and North Africa. Its line of rulers holds 3 people.

Wikidata records a founding in 800 and no end; the borders dataset maps it from 899 to 1071, and those are the years drawn here.

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

Stood: 172 years; 899 – 1071
Rulers: 3; the Ruler
Most ground: 65,100 km²; in 899
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Qarmatians in 899, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Qarmatians in 899, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 65,100 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.

Qarmatians in 899, 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.

Qarmatians in 980, last 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.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

killed, executed or dead in battleending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Abu-Sa'id Jannabi	899 – 914	15 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Abu Tahir al-Jannabi	914 – 944	30 years	ending not on record	child
Al-Hasan al-As'am	968 – 977	9 years	ending not on record	nephew or niece

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 899 – 977. Median reign 15 years. 1 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.

65,100 km² in 899, 6,700 km² in 1071; at its largest 65,100 km² in 899. 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.

flag, undatedQarmatians Flag · Public domain

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 stood172 years
stood longer than 58% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held65,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 37% 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 median15 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 49% 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.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 882 – 1088, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 899, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q138803 (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.