State · 1515 – 1926

Sultanate of Maguindanao

A state of 1515 – 1926 — 411 years in East and Southeast Asia. The atlas records 3 things within it — wars and battles 3. Its line of rulers holds 3 people.

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

Stood: 411 years; 1515 – 1926
Rulers: 3; the 7th Sultan of Maguindanao
Most ground: 106,900 km²; in 1521
Within it: 3; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Sultanate of Maguindanao in 1521, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Sultanate of Maguindanao in 1521, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 106,900 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.

Sultanate of Maguindanao in 1521, 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.

Sultanate of Maguindanao in 1612, 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
Sharif Kabungsuwan	1515 – 1543	28 years	ending not on record
Kapitan Laut Buisan	1597 – 1619	22 years	ending not on record
Muhammad Kudarat	1616 – 1616	under a year	ending not on record	child

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1515 – 1619. Median reign 22 years. 1 of 2 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.

106,900 km² in 1540, 400 km² in 1840; at its largest 106,900 km² in 1540. 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 Maguindanao · Public domain

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 – 15992 rows · 2 wars and battles

Battle of Mactan · battle · 1521
Spanish–Moro conflict · war · 1565 – 1898

1800 – 18991 row · 1 wars and battles

Battle of Manila Bay · battle · 1898

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 stood411 years
stood longer than 81% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held106,900 km²
held more ground at its peak than 47% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century0.2
had more wars on record per century than 90% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median22 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 68% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1474 – 1967, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1521, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q248572 (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.