State · 1085 – 1176
Zurayid dynasty
A state of 1085 – 1176 — 91 years in the Middle East and North Africa.
- Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 1085 to 1176, and those are the years drawn here.
- Wikidata's English label: Zurayids.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 91 years
- 1085 – 1176
- Most ground
- 3,400 km²
- in 1085
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
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.
3,400 km² in 1085, 3,400 km² in 1176; at its largest 3,400 km² in 1085. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
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 stood91 years
stood longer than 44% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held3,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 7% 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.
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 91
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1075 – 1186, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1085, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q230385 (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.