State · 850 – 1259
Tibetans
A state of 850 – 1259 — 409 years in South Asia. The atlas records 1 thing within it — wars and battles 1.
- Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 850 to 1259, and those are the years drawn here.
- Wikidata's English label: Tibetan 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
- 409 years
- 850 – 1259
- Most ground
- 1.87 million km²
- in 860
- Within it
- 1
- recorded row
- Symbol
- 1
- on record, with years
860 · at its largest · 1.87 million km²
1250 · last mapped · 1,700 km²
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.
1.87 million km² in 850, 1,700 km² in 1259; at its largest 1.87 million km² in 875. 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, undatedFlag of Tibet · 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.
1200 – 12991 row · 1 wars and battles
- Mongol invasions of Tibet · war · 1240 – 1253
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 stood409 years
stood longer than 81% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held1,865,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 90% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century0.2
had more wars on record per century than 90% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 809 – 1300, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 860, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q187985 (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.