State · 1712 – 1861

Ségou Empire

A state of 1712 – 1861 — 149 years in the Middle East and North Africa. The atlas records 1 thing within it — people 1. Its line of rulers holds 6 people.

Wikidata's English label: Bamana Empire.

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

Stood: 149 years; 1712 – 1861
Rulers: 6; the Faama
Most ground: 105,100 km²; in 1803
Within it: 1; recorded row

Map: Ségou Empire in 1803, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Ségou Empire in 1803, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 105,100 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.

Ségou Empire in 1713, first 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.

Ségou Empire in 1803, 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.

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 battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removedending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Bitòn Coulibaly	1712 – 1755	43 years	ending not on record
Dinkoro Coulibaly	1755 – 1757	2 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child
Ali Coulibaly	1757 – 1759	2 years	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Ngolo Diarra	1766 – 1790	24 years	ending not on record
Mansong Diarra	1790 – 1808	18 years	ending not on record	child
Da Mansong Diarra	1808 – 1827	19 years	ending not on record

6 rulers, 6 with terms dated as terms, covering 1712 – 1827. Median reign 18.5 years. 2 of 5 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.

23,500 km² in 1722, 105,100 km² in 1812; at its largest 105,100 km² in 1812. 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.

1700 – 17991 row

Seku Amadu · ruler · 1775 – 1844

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 stood149 years
stood longer than 55% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held105,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 46% 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 median19 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 59% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record6
has more rulers on record than 69% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

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 149

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1697 – 1876, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1803, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q762084 (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.