State · 900 – 1270

Zagwe dynasty

A state of 900 – 1270 — 370 years in the Middle East and North Africa. The atlas records 2 things within it — people 2. 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: 370 years; 900 – 1270
Rulers: 4; the Emperor of Ethiopia
Most ground: 14,500 km²; in 947
Within it: 2; recorded rows

Map: Zagwe dynasty in 947, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Zagwe dynasty in 947, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 14,500 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 Emperor of Ethiopia.

left alive by a regular roadending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Yemrehana Krestos	1132 – 1172	40 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Gebre Meskel Lalibela	1172 – 1212	40 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Na'akueto La'ab	1212 – 1260	48 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	nephew or niece
Yetbarak	1260 – 1268	8 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone

4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1132 – 1268. Median reign 40 years. 0 of 3 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.

14,500 km² in 950, 14,500 km² in 1270; at its largest 14,500 km² in 950. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

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 – 12992 rows

Gebre Meskel Lalibela · ruler · 1200 – 1300
Na'akueto La'ab · ruler · 1200 – 1300

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 stood370 years
stood longer than 79% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held14,500 km²
held more ground at its peak than 18% 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 median40 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 91% 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.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 863 – 1307, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 947, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q140446 (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.