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
1595 · at its largest · 842,900 km²
1640 · last mapped · 384,900 km²
Where it sits in time
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
- Wattasid dynasty · replaces · 1472 – 1554
After it
- Zawiya Dila'iya · replaced by
- Alawi Sultanate · replaced by
- Kingdom of Tazeroualt · replaced by · 1600 – 1882
- Republic of Salé · replaced by · 1627 – 1668
Rulers
The line of sultan of Morocco.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mohammed al-Shaykh | 1549 – 1557 | 8 years | killedWikidata's manner of death | |
| Abdallah al-Ghalib | 1557 – 1574 | 17 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | child |
| Abu Abdallah Muhammad II Saadi | 1574 – 1576 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | child |
| Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi | 1576 – 1578 | 2 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Zidan Abu Maali | 1603 – 1603 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | nephew or niece |
| Abu Faris Abdallah | 1603 – 1608 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | sibling |
| Muhammad al-Shaykh al-Ma'mun | 1603 – 1627 | 24 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | sibling |
| Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik II | 1627 – 1631 | 4 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | nephew or niece |
| Al Walid ibn Zaydan | 1631 – 1636 | 5 years | killedWikidata's manner of death | sibling |
| Muhammad al-Shaykh al-Saghir | 1636 – 1655 | 19 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | sibling |
| Ahmad al-Abbas | 1655 – 1659 | 4 years | killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | child |
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.
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 – 15997 rows · 1 wars and battles
- Abu Abdallah Muhammad II Saadi · ruler · 1540 – 1578
- Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi · ruler · 1541 – 1578
- Abdallah al-Ghalib · ruler · 1517 – 1574
- Zidan Abu Maali · ruler · 1560 – 1627
- Abu Faris Abdallah · ruler · 1564 – 1609
- Muhammad al-Shaykh al-Ma'mun · ruler · 1566 – 1613
- Battle of Jenné · battle · 1599
1600 – 16994 rows
- Ahmad al-Abbas · ruler · 1620 – 1659
- Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik II · ruler · 1610 – 1631
- Muhammad al-Shaykh al-Saghir · ruler · 1610 – 1655
- Al Walid ibn Zaydan · ruler · 1610 – 1636
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.
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
- On the timeline, 1538 – 1670, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1595, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
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.