State · 1236 – 1556

Zayyanid dynasty

A state of 1236 – 1556 — 320 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It followed Almohad Caliphate. It was replaced by Emirate of Algiers. The atlas records 1 thing within it — wars and battles 1. Its line of rulers holds 18 people.

Wikidata's English label: Zayyanid Dynasty.

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

Stood: 320 years; 1236 – 1556
Rulers: 18; the ruler
Most ground: 126,200 km²; in 1285
Within it: 1; recorded row

Map: Zayyanid dynasty in 1285, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Zayyanid dynasty in 1285, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 126,200 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

Almohad Caliphate · follows · 1121 – 1269

After it

Emirate of Algiers · replaced by

Rulers

The line of ruler.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Abu Tashufin II	1389 – 1393	4 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Abu Thabid II	1393 – 1393	under a year	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	child
Abul Hadjdjadj I	1393 – 1393	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Abu Abdallah I	1400 – 1411	11 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	sibling
Said I bin Abu Tashufin	1411 – 1411	under a year	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	sibling
Abu Malek I	1411 – 1424	13 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	sibling
Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad II	1424 – 1428	4 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	nephew or niece
Abu Malek I	1428 – 1430	2 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad II	1430 – 1430	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone	nephew or niece
Abu Abbas Ahmad I	1430 – 1462	32 years	died in battleWikidata's manner of death
Abu Abdallah III	1462 – 1468	6 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Abu Tashufin III	1468 – 1468	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Abu Abdallah IV	1468 – 1504	36 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Abu Tashufin III	1470 – 1470	under a year	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Abu Abdallah V	1504 – 1516	12 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	nephew or niece
Abu Zayyan III	1516 – 1516	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone	sibling
Abu Hammu III	1516 – 1518	2 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Abu Zayyan III	1518 – 1518	under a year	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	nephew or niece
Abu Hammu III	1518 – 1519	1 year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Abu Sarhan Mas'ud	1519 – 1519	under a year	ending not on record	sibling
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh II	1519 – 1524	5 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	sibling
Abu Abdallah VI	1524 – 1542	18 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh II	1528 – 1540	12 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	parent
Abu Abdallah VI	1540 – 1540	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Abu Zayyan IV	1540 – 1544	4 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	sibling
Abu Abdallah VI	1543 – 1543	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone	sibling
Abu Zayyan IV	1544 – 1550	6 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling

18 rulers, 18 with terms dated as terms, covering 1389 – 1550. Median reign 2 years. 4 of 26 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.

125,800 km² in 1236, 125,100 km² in 1511; at its largest 126,200 km² in 1286. 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.

1500 – 15991 row · 1 wars and battles

Capture of Mers-el-Kébir · battle · 1505

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 stood320 years
stood longer than 75% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held126,200 km²
held more ground at its peak than 50% 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 median2 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 5% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record18
has more rulers on record than 90% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 2 causes the record names and 0 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.

linkedcoincidence

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, 1204 – 1588, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1285, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q307697 (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.