State · 1009 – 1151

Taifa of Badajoz

A state of 1009 – 1151 — 142 years in Europe. It followed Taifa of Murviedro and Sagunto. It was replaced by Taifa of Mértola. The atlas records 1 thing within it — wars and battles 1. 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: 142 years; 1009 – 1151
Rulers: 1; the king
Most ground: 106,600 km²; in 1034
Within it: 1; recorded row

Map: Taifa of Badajoz in 1034, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Taifa of Badajoz in 1034, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 106,600 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.

Taifa of Badajoz in 1034, 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.

Taifa of Badajoz in 1147, 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, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Taifa of Murviedro and Sagunto · follows · 1086 – 1092

After it

Taifa of Mértola · replaced by · 1033 – 1151

Rulers

The line of king.

died in office

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Yahya Al Mansur	1068 – 1072	4 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone

1 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 1068 – 1072. Only 4 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.

102,100 km² in 1019, 4,500 km² in 1151; at its largest 106,600 km² in 1039. 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.

1000 – 10991 row · 1 wars and battles

Battle of Sagrajas · battle · 1086

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 stood142 years
stood longer than 54% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held106,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 47% 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 142

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 995 – 1165, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1034, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q276841 (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.