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State · 1549 – 1659

Saadi Sultanate

A state of 1549 – 1659 — 110 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Wattasid dynasty. It was replaced by Republic of Salé, Kingdom of Tazeroualt and Zawiya Dila'iya and 1 more. The atlas records 12 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 11. Its line of rulers holds 11 people.

  • Wikidata's English label: Saadi dynasty.

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

Stood
110 years
1549 – 1659
Rulers
11
the sultan of Morocco
Most ground
842,900 km²
in 1595
Within it
12
recorded rows
Map: Saadi Sultanate in 1595, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Saadi Sultanate in 1595, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 842,900 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.
Saadi Sultanate in 1595, at its largest

1595 · at its largest · 842,900 km²

Saadi Sultanate in 1640, last mapped

1640 · last mapped · 384,900 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 BCE110002000Wattasid dynasty: 1472 – 1554Kingdom of Tazeroualt: 1600 – 1882Republic of Salé: 1627 – 1668Saadi Sultanate: 1549 – 1659

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

Rulers

The line of sultan of Morocco.

Mohammed al-Shaykh · 1549 – 1557 · killedAbdallah al-Ghalib · 1557 – 1574 · died in office of natural causesAbu Abdallah Muhammad II Saadi · 1574 – 1576 · left office aliveAbu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi · 1576 – 1578 · died in office, manner not recordedZidan Abu Maali · 1603 – 1603 · left office aliveAbu Faris Abdallah · 1603 – 1608 · left office aliveMuhammad al-Shaykh al-Ma'mun · 1603 – 1627 · the term ends after the recorded deathAbu Marwan Abd al-Malik II · 1627 – 1631 · died in office, manner not recordedAl Walid ibn Zaydan · 1631 – 1636 · killedMuhammad al-Shaykh al-Saghir · 1636 – 1655 · died in office, manner not recordedAhmad al-Abbas · 1655 – 1659 · killed, the article says15601580160016201640
killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Mohammed al-Shaykh1549 – 15578 yearskilledWikidata's manner of death
Abdallah al-Ghalib1557 – 157417 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of deathchild
Abu Abdallah Muhammad II Saadi1574 – 15762 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alonechild
Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi1576 – 15782 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Zidan Abu Maali1603 – 1603under a yearleft office aliveread off the dates alonenephew or niece
Abu Faris Abdallah1603 – 16085 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alonesibling
Muhammad al-Shaykh al-Ma'mun1603 – 162724 yearsthe term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alonesibling
Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik II1627 – 16314 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonenephew or niece
Al Walid ibn Zaydan1631 – 16365 yearskilledWikidata's manner of deathsibling
Muhammad al-Shaykh al-Saghir1636 – 165519 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonesibling
Ahmad al-Abbas1655 – 16594 yearskilled, the article saysread from the ruler's own articlechild

11 rulers, 11 with terms dated as terms, covering 1549 – 1659. Median reign 5 years. 3 of 10 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.

15601580160016201640

384,700 km² in 1559, 384,900 km² in 1659; at its largest 842,900 km² in 1599. 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.

1500 – 1599: 7 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 6 other15001600 – 1699: 4 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 4 other1600

1500 – 15997 rows · 1 wars and battles

1600 – 16994 rows

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 stood110 years

    stood longer than 49% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held842,900 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 82% 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 median5 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 18% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record11

    has more rulers on record than 83% 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 3 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.

Treaty of Tadla · Linked · 1527Treaty of TadlaWattasid dynasty · Linked · 1472 – 1554Wattasid dynastyAhmad al-Mansur · In the article · 1549 · “In the wake of this victory, Ahmad al-Mansur became sultan and presided over the apogee of Saadian power.”Ahmad al-MansurSaadi Sultanate · 1549 – 1659Saadi SultanateAlawi Sultanate · Linked · 1665 – 1912Alawi SultanateRepublic of Salé · Linked · 1627 – 1668Republic of SaléKingdom of Tazeroualt · Linked · 1605 – 1882Kingdom of Tazeroualt15001600170018001900
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 110

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q1136188 (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.