State · 1011 – 1266

Taifa of Murcia

A state of 1011 – 1266 — 255 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It followed Taifa of Guadix and Baza.

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

Stood: 255 years; 1011 – 1266
Most ground: 77,900 km²; in 1152
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Taifa of Murcia in 1152, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Taifa of Murcia in 1152, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 77,900 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.

Taifa of Murcia in 1015, first 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.

Taifa of Murcia in 1152, 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.

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 Guadix and Baza · follows · 1145 – 1151

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.

6,300 km² in 1021, 8,000 km² in 1241; at its largest 77,900 km² in 1161. 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, undatedAl-andalus Murcia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Hugito ddd

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 stood255 years
stood longer than 69% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held77,900 km²
held more ground at its peak than 40% 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.

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.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 985 – 1292, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1152, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q921067 (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.