State · 1013 – 1150

Taifa of Carmona

A state of 1013 – 1150 — 137 years in the Middle East and North Africa. 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: 137 years; 1013 – 1150
Rulers: 3; the Amir
Most ground: 11,200 km²; in 1015

Map: Taifa of Carmona in 1015, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Taifa of Carmona in 1015, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 11,200 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 Carmona in 1015, 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 Carmona 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.

Rulers

The line of Amir.

died in officeending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Muhammad ibn Abdallah al-Birzali	1023 – 1042	19 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Ishaq bin Mohammed al-Birzali	1042 – 1052	10 years	ending not on record	child
al-Aziz ibn Muhammad al-Birzali	1052 – 1066	14 years	ending not on record	sibling

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1023 – 1066. Only 43 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 0 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.

11,000 km² in 1023, 4,300 km² in 1150; at its largest 11,100 km² in 1033. 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 stood137 years
stood longer than 53% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held11,200 km²
held more ground at its peak than 15% 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 record3
has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 16 causes the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

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 137

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 999 – 1164, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1015, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q2668584 (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.