State · 1472 – 1554
Wattasid dynasty
A state of 1472 – 1554 — 82 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Marinid dynasty. It was replaced by Saadi Sultanate and Alawi Sultanate. The atlas records 6 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 4 · trade and piracy 1. Its line of rulers holds 4 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
- 82 years
- 1472 – 1554
- Rulers
- 4
- the sultan of Morocco
- Most ground
- 388,600 km²
- in 1468
- Within it
- 6
- recorded rows
- Symbol
- 1
- on record, with years
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
- Marinid dynasty · replaces · 1215 – 1465
After it
- Saadi Sultanate · replaced by · 1549 – 1659
- Alawi Sultanate · replaced by · 1510 – 1912
Rulers
The line of sultan of Morocco.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abu Abd Allah al-Sheikh Muhammad ibn Yahya | 1472 – 1504 | 32 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Abu Abd Allah al-Burtuqali Muhammad ibn Muhammad | 1504 – 1526 | 22 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad | 1526 – 1545 | 19 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | child |
| Nasir ad-Din al-Qasri Muhammad ibn Ahmad | 1545 – 1547 | 2 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad | 1547 – 1549 | 2 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | parent |
4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1472 – 1549. Median reign 19 years. 0 of 4 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.
388,600 km² in 1472, 384,700 km² in 1554; at its largest 388,600 km² in 1472. 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, undatedWattasid dynasty flag · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Vexilla Mundi
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.
1400 – 14995 rows · 1 wars and battles
- Sayyida al Hurra · pirate · 1485 – 1561
- Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad · ruler · 1490 – 1549
- Abu Abd Allah al-Sheikh Muhammad ibn Yahya · ruler · 1440 – 1504
- Abu Abd Allah al-Burtuqali Muhammad ibn Muhammad · ruler · 1464 – 1526
- Conquest of Melilla · battle · 1497
1500 – 15991 row
- Nasir ad-Din al-Qasri Muhammad ibn Ahmad · ruler · 1530 – 1547
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 stood82 years
stood longer than 43% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held388,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 70% 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 median19 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 59% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record4
has more rulers on record than 58% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 2 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.
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, 1462 – 1564, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1468, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q970799 (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.