State · 2014
Territory of the Islamic State
A state of 2014. The atlas records 1 thing within it — people 1. Its line of rulers holds 2 people.
- Wikidata records no end for this state; the atlas ends it where the borders dataset last draws it, 2014.
- Wikidata's English label: Islamic State.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Rulers
- 2
- the Caliph of the Islamic State
- Within it
- 1
- recorded row
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
The line of Caliph of the Islamic State - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi | 2014 – 2019 | 5 years | died by suicideWikidata's manner of death | |
| Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi | 2019 – 2022 | 3 years | died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term |
2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 2014 – 2022. Only 8 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 0 of 1 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 0.78, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
coat of arms, undatedISIL Caliphate Seal · Public domain 
flag, from 2007Islamic State flag · 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.
1 rows, over a span too long to list by century.
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.
- Rulers on record2
has more rulers on record than 34% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 2004 – 2024, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 2014, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q18639759 (CC0) · 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.