State · 1816 – 1897

Zulu Kingdom

A state of 1816 – 1897 — 81 years in sub-Saharan Africa. The atlas records 9 things within it — wars and battles 5 · unrest and atrocity 1 · people 3. Its line of rulers holds 5 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: 81 years; 1816 – 1897
Rulers: 5; the king
Most ground: 26,100 km²; in 1848
Within it: 9; recorded rows
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Map: Zulu Kingdom in 1848, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Zulu Kingdom in 1848, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 26,100 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.

Rulers

The line of king.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeending 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
Shaka Zulu	1816 – 1828	12 years	killedWikidata's manner of death
Dingane kaSenzangakhona	1828 – 1840	12 years	ending not on record	sibling
Mpande kaSenzangakhona	1840 – 1872	32 years	ending not on record	sibling
Cetshwayo kaMpande	1856 – 1884	28 years	ending not on record	child
Dinuzulu KaCetshwayo	1884 – 1913	29 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child

5 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 1816 – 1913. Median reign 28 years. 3 of 4 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.

25,600 km² in 1826, 25,100 km² in 1897; at its largest 25,700 km² in 1846. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedConjectural flag of Zululand (1884-1897) by Roberto Breschi taken from The South African Flag Book by A.P.Burgers · CC BY-SA 4.0 · SpringbokSam
flag, undatedFlag of Zulu · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Alegri4B

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.

1800 – 18998 rows · 5 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres

Anglo-Zulu War · war · 1879
Battle of Rorke's Drift · battle · 1879
Battle of Isandlwana · battle · 1879
Cetshwayo kaMpande · ruler · 1826 – 1884
Battle of Blood River · battle · 1838
Dinuzulu KaCetshwayo · ruler · 1868 – 1913
Battle of Ulundi · battle · 1879
Weenen massacre · atrocity · 1838

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 stood81 years
stood longer than 42% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held26,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 25% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century1.0
had more wars on record per century than 94% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median28 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 80% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record5
has more rulers on record than 64% 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 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.

coincidence

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, 1806 – 1907, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1848, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q729768 (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.