State · 1755 – 1950

Yogyakarta Sultanate

A state of 1755 – 1950 — 195 years in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Mataram Sultanate. It was replaced by Yogyakarta. The atlas records 8 things within it — people 8. Its line of rulers holds 8 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: 195 years; 1755 – 1950
Rulers: 8; the Sultan of Yogyakarta
Most ground: 4,100 km²; in 1755
Within it: 8; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Yogyakarta Sultanate in 1755, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Yogyakarta Sultanate in 1755, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 4,100 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, 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

Mataram Sultanate · replaces · 1586 – 1755

After it

Yogyakarta · replaced by

Rulers

The line of Sultan of Yogyakarta.

deposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Hamengkubuwono I	1755 – 1792	37 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Hamengkubuwono II	1792 – 1810	18 years	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child
Hamengkubuwono III	1810 – 1811	1 year	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Hamengkubuwono II	1811 – 1812	1 year	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	parent
Hamengkubuwono III	1812 – 1814	2 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Hamengkubuwono IV	1814 – 1823	9 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	child
Hamengkubuwono V	1823 – 1826	3 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Hamengkubuwono II	1826 – 1828	2 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Hamengkubuwono V	1828 – 1855	27 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Hamengkubuwono VI	1855 – 1877	22 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Hamengkubuwono VII	1877 – 1921	44 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Hamengkubuwono VIII	1921 – 1939	18 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child

8 rulers, 8 with terms dated as terms, covering 1755 – 1939. Median reign 13.5 years. 2 of 11 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.

4,100 km² in 1755, 4,100 km² in 1825; at its largest 4,100 km² in 1755. 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.

coat of arms, undatedYogyakarta Sultanate Hamengkubhuwono X Emblem · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Gunawan Kartapranata

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.

1700 – 17993 rows

Hamengkubuwono I · ruler · 1717 – 1792
Hamengkubuwono II · ruler · 1750 – 1828
Hamengkubuwono III · ruler · 1769 – 1814

1800 – 18995 rows

Hamengkubuwono IV · ruler · 1804 – 1822
Hamengkubuwono VIII · ruler · 1880 – 1939
Hamengkubuwono VI · ruler · 1821 – 1877
Hamengkubuwono V · ruler · 1821 – 1855
Hamengkubuwono VII · ruler · 1839 – 1921

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 stood195 years
stood longer than 62% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held4,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 8% 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 median18 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 56% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record8
has more rulers on record than 76% 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 1 result, 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, 1735 – 1970, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1755, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q2114397 (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.