State · 618 – 842

Tibetan Empire

A state of 618 – 842 — 224 years in South Asia. It replaced Tuyuhun and Zhangzhung. The atlas records 7 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 6. Its line of rulers holds 22 people, 7 with dated terms.

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

Stood: 224 years; 618 – 842
Rulers: 22; the tsenpo
Most ground: 3.86 million km²; in 830
Within it: 7; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Tibetan Empire in 830, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Tibetan Empire in 830, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 3.86 million 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.

Tibetan Empire in 623, 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.

Tibetan Empire in 830, 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

Tuyuhun · replaces · 285 – 672
Zhangzhung · replaces · 501 BCE – 625 CE

Rulers

The line of tsenpo.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Tridu Songtsen	676 – 704	28 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Mé Aktsom	705 – 755	50 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	child
Trisong Detsen	755 – 797	42 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Muné Tsenpo	797 – 799	2 years	served out the term, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child
Sadnalegs	800 – 815	15 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Ralpachen	815 – 838	23 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child
Langdarma	838 – 842	4 years	killedWikidata's manner of death	sibling

22 rulers, 7 with terms dated as terms, covering 676 – 842. Median reign 23 years. 1 of 6 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.

1.28 million km² in 628, 3.86 million km² in 842; at its largest 3.86 million km² in 838. 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, undatedTibetan snow leopard · 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.

600 – 6992 rows · 1 wars and battles

Tridu Songtsen · ruler · 670 – 704
Battle of Rasil · battle · 644

700 – 7993 rows

Trisong Detsen · ruler · 742 – 797
Sadnalegs · ruler · 761 – 815
Mé Aktsom · ruler · 704 – 754

800 – 8992 rows

Ralpachen · ruler · 806 – 838
Langdarma · ruler · 803 – 842

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 stood224 years
stood longer than 66% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held3,856,200 km²
held more ground at its peak than 96% 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.
How long a reign lasted, at the median23 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 70% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record22
has more rulers on record than 92% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 2 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, 596 – 864, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 830, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q2431480 (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.