State · 1636 – 1802

Rassid dynasty

A state of 1636 – 1802 — 166 years in the Middle East and North Africa.

Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 1636 to 1802, 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: 166 years; 1636 – 1802
Most ground: 362,000 km²; in 1659
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Rassid dynasty in 1659, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Rassid dynasty in 1659, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 362,000 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.

Rassid dynasty in 1659, 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.

Rassid dynasty in 1796, 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.

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.

208,800 km² in 1636, 154,400 km² in 1802; at its largest 362,000 km² in 1666. 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.

coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen · 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 stood166 years
stood longer than 58% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held362,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 69% 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.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1619 – 1819, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1659, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q5261548 (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.