State · 819 – 999

Samanid Empire

A state of 819 – 999 — 180 years in South Asia. The atlas records 9 things within it — people 9. Its line of rulers holds 4 people.

Held with the record of Samanid dynasty, merged into this one.

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

Stood: 180 years; 819 – 999
Rulers: 4; the Amir of the Samanids
Most ground: 3.10 million km²; in 911
Within it: 9; recorded rows

Map: Samanid Empire in 911, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Samanid Empire in 911, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 3.10 million 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.

Samanid Empire in 911, 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.

Samanid Empire in 990, 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.

ending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Nasr I	5 – 892	887 years	ending not on record
Ahmad ibn Asad	819 – 864	45 years	ending not on record	parent
Ahmad Samani	907 – 914	7 years	ending not on record	grandchild
Abd al-Malik II	999 – 999	under a year	ending not on record

4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 5 – 999. Median reign 26 years. 1 of 3 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.

351,400 km² in 889, 1.92 million km² in 999; at its largest 3.10 million km² in 919. 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.

800 – 8991 row

Istakhri · scientist · 850 – 957

900 – 9998 rows

Avicenna · scientist · 980 – 1037
Ferdowsi · writer · 940 – 1020
Al-Biruni · scientist · 973 – 1048
Ibn Miskawayh · philosopher · 932 – 1030
Alp-Tegin · commander · 901 – 963
Hamza ibn Ali · philosopher · 985 – 1041
Al-Tha'alibi · writer · 961 – 1038
Mansur I · person · 940 – 976

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 stood180 years
stood longer than 59% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held3,100,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 95% 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 median45 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 93% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record4
has more rulers on record than 58% 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.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 801 – 1017, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 911, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q12150341 (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.