State · 744 – 840

Uyghur Khaganate

A state of 744 – 840 — 96 years in East and Southeast Asia. The atlas records 1 thing within it — people 1. Its line of rulers holds 10 people, 9 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: 96 years; 744 – 840
Rulers: 10; the khagan
Most ground: 3.88 million km²; in 763
Within it: 1; recorded row
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Uyghur Khaganate in 763, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Uyghur Khaganate in 763, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 3.88 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.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

The line of khagan.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Kutlug I Bilge Kagan	744 – 747	3 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Bayanchur Khan	747 – 759	12 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Bögü Khagan	759 – 780	21 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	child
Tun Baga Tarkan	780 – 789	9 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Külüg Bilge khagan	789 – 790	1 year	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child
Qutluq Bilge Qaghan	790 – 795	5 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Külüg Bilgə khagan	795 – 808	13 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Pao-i Khan	808 – 821	13 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Ch'ung-te Khan	821 – 824	3 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child

10 rulers, 9 with terms dated as terms, covering 744 – 824. Median reign 9 years. 1 of 8 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.

2.94 million km² in 754, 2.98 million km² in 840; at its largest 3.88 million km² in 764. 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.

tamga, undatedYaglakar clan tamga · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Beshogur

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.

700 – 7991 row

Bayanchur Khan · ruler · 713 – 759

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 stood96 years
stood longer than 46% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held3,883,500 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 median9 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 31% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record10
has more rulers on record than 80% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 96

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 734 – 850, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 763, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q831218 (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.