State · 1320 – 1911
Sultanate of Gowa
A state of 1320 – 1911 — 591 years in East and Southeast Asia. The atlas records 2 things within it — people 2. Its line of rulers holds 1 person.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 591 years
- 1320 – 1911
- Rulers
- 1
- the sultan
- Most ground
- 2,600 km²
- in 1512
- Within it
- 2
- recorded rows
- Symbol
- 1
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
The line of sultan.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hasanuddin of Gowa | 1653 – 1669 | 16 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone |
1 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 1653 – 1669. Only 16 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 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.
2,600 km² in 1520, 2,600 km² in 1645; at its largest 2,600 km² in 1520. 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.

flag, undatedFlag of the Sultanate of Gowa · CC0
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.
1600 – 16992 rows
- Hasanuddin of Gowa · ruler · 1631 – 1670
- Sheikh Yusuf · person · 1626 – 1699
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 stood591 years
stood longer than 90% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held2,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 6% 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.
- Rulers on record1
has more rulers on record than 13% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1261 – 1970, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1512, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q1408641 (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.