State · 1285 – 1415
Sultanate of Ifat
A state of 1285 – 1415 — 130 years in sub-Saharan Africa. Its line of rulers holds 1 person.
- Wikidata's English label: Ifat Sultanate.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 130 years
- 1285 – 1415
- Rulers
- 1
- the Sultan
- Most ground
- 121,700 km²
- in 1285
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.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sa'ad ad-Din II | 1376 – 1403 | 27 years | ending not on record |
1 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 1376 – 1403. Only 27 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.
121,700 km² in 1285, 121,100 km² in 1405; at its largest 121,700 km² in 1285. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
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 stood130 years
stood longer than 52% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held121,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 49% 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.
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 130
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1272 – 1428, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1285, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q157727 (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.