State · 972 – 1148

Zirid dynasty

A state of 972 – 1148 — 176 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Fatimid Caliphate. The atlas records 3 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 2. Its line of rulers holds 3 people.

Wikidata's English label: Zirid 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: 176 years; 972 – 1148
Rulers: 3; the ruler
Most ground: 113,600 km²; in 1056
Within it: 3; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Zirid dynasty in 1056, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Zirid dynasty in 1056, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 113,600 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

Fatimid Caliphate · replaces · 909 – 1171

Rulers

The line of ruler.

died in officeleft alive by a regular road

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source
Buluggin ibn Ziri	972 – 984	12 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Tamim ben Bologhin	1072 – 1090	18 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Abu'l-Hasan al-Hasan ibn Ali	1121 – 1152	31 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 972 – 1152. Median reign 18 years. 0 of 2 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.

113,600 km² in 1062, 29,700 km² in 1148; at its largest 113,600 km² in 1062. 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, undatedFlag of Zirid Dynasty (1146 - 973) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Takiva

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.

900 – 9991 row

Buluggin ibn Ziri · ruler · 930 – 984

1000 – 10991 row · 1 wars and battles

Mahdia campaign of 1087 · battle · 1087

1100 – 11991 row

Abu'l-Hasan al-Hasan ibn Ali · ruler · 1109 – 1171

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 stood176 years
stood longer than 59% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held113,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 48% 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 record3
has more rulers on record than 48% 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.

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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, 954 – 1166, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1056, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q205718 (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.