State · 1635 – 1909

Wadai Sultanate

A state of 1635 – 1909 — 274 years in the Middle East and North Africa. Its line of rulers holds 1 person.

Wikidata's English label: Ouaddai Empire.

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

Stood: 274 years; 1635 – 1909
Rulers: 1; the Kolak
Most ground: 281,000 km²; in 1636

Map: Wadai Sultanate in 1636, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Wadai Sultanate in 1636, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 281,000 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

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

ending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Muhammad Da’ud Murra ibn Yusuf	1902 – 1909	7 years	ending not on record

1 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 1902 – 1909. Only 7 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 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.

281,000 km² in 1645, 279,600 km² in 1909; at its largest 281,000 km² in 1645. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

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 stood274 years
stood longer than 71% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held281,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 64% 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.
Rulers on record1
has more rulers on record than 13% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1608 – 1936, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1636, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q1132786 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.