State · 1996 – 2005
Taliban
A state of 1996 – 2005 — 9 years in South Asia. The atlas records 10 things within it — wars and battles 9 · unrest and atrocity 1.
- Wikidata records a founding in 1994 and no end; the borders dataset maps it from 1996 to 2005, and those are the years drawn here.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 9 years
- 1996 – 2005
- Most ground
- 560,600 km²
- in 2000
- Within it
- 10
- recorded rows
- Symbol
- 1
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
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.
451,100 km² in 1996, 560,600 km² in 2005; at its largest 560,600 km² in 2001. 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, from 1997Flag of the Taliban · 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.
1900 – 19991 row · 1 wars and battles
- Afghan Civil War · war · 1996 – 2001
2000 – 20999 rows · 8 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) · war · 2001 – 2021
- Operation Enduring Freedom · battle · 2001 – 2014
- Battle of Tora Bora · battle · 2001
- United States invasion of Afghanistan · war · 2001
- Fall of Mazar-i-Sharif · battle · 2001
- Fall of Kabul · battle · 2001
- Battle of Qala-i-Jangi · battle · 2001
- Dasht-i-Leili massacre · atrocity · 2001
and 1 more in the atlas.
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 stood9 years
stood longer than 17% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held560,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 76% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century3.0
had more wars on record per century than 99% 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: 4 causes the record names and 9 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.
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, 1986 – 2015, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 2000, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q42418 (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.