Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1127 – 1250

Zengid dynasty

A state of 1127 – 1250 — 123 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Fatimid Caliphate. The atlas records 7 things within it — wars and battles 3 · people 4. 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
123 years
1127 – 1250
Rulers
4
the Emir of Mosul
Most ground
1.16 million km²
in 1169
Within it
7
recorded rows
Symbol
1
on record, with years
Map: Zengid dynasty in 1169, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Zengid dynasty in 1169, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 1.16 million 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

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Fatimid Caliphate: 909 – 1171Zengid dynasty: 1127 – 1250

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

Rulers

The line of Emir of Mosul.

Ahmad Sanjar · 1118 – 1157 · no death date to read the end againstQutb ad-Din Mawdud · 1149 – 1170 · died in office, manner not recordedTughril III · 1176 – 1194 · no death date to read the end againstIzz ad-Din Mas'ud · 1180 – 1193 · died in office, manner not recorded115012001250
died in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Ahmad Sanjar1118 – 115739 yearsending not on record
Qutb ad-Din Mawdud1149 – 117021 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Tughril III1176 – 119418 yearsending not on record
Izz ad-Din Mas'ud1180 – 119313 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone

4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1118 – 1194. Median reign 19.5 years. 2 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.

11601180120012201240

362,800 km² in 1147, 108,700 km² in 1250; at its largest 385,400 km² in 1157. 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.

  • Zengid flag at the Battle of Inab (1149), in Passages d'outremer by Jean Colomb, 15th century (schematical)
    flag, undatedZengid flag at the Battle of Inab (1149), in Passages d'outremer by Jean Colomb, 15th century (schematical) · Public domain

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.

1100 – 1199: 7 recorded — 3 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 4 other11001200 – 1299: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1200

1100 – 11997 rows · 3 wars and battles

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 stood123 years

    stood longer than 51% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held1,163,900 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 86% 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 median21 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 66% 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: 3 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.

Fatimid Caliphate · Linked · 909 – 1171Fatimid CaliphateSeljuk Empire · In the article · 1037 · “Following the demise of the Seljuk dynasty in 1194, the Zengids persisted for several decades as one of the "Seljuk successor-states" until 1250.”Seljuk EmpireImad al-Din Zengi · Coincidence · 1087 – 1146Imad al-Din ZengiZengid dynasty · 1127 – 1250Zengid dynasty900100011001200
in the articlelinkedcoincidence

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

  • Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling

    Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009

    Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.

    • the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 123

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q189545 (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.