Territorial change of Hamdanid dynasty (Hamdanid Emirates)

“Hamdanid dynasty”(Hamdanid Emirates) — appears in this map’s data from AD 936 to 1259. Its territory was largest in AD 1236 – 1249, at ≈ 1.10 million km².

Territory by period

Outline at its largest extent

Outline of the territory in AD 1236 – 1249 (map drawing). Neighbouring countries are not drawn.

Area and rank by frame

For each frame in which borders change: this country’s territory and its rank by area among the countries that have territory in that frame.

Its highest rank was in AD 1236: number 137 of 6.

Neighbouring countries

In order of the number of frames in which they share a border (a parent state, its colonies and other names of the same country are counted as one group).

• Shirvan — 32 frames
• Byzantine Empire — 25 frames
• Bagratid Armenia — 15 frames
• Fatimid Caliphate — 14 frames
• Buyid dynasty — 13 frames
• Kingdom of Vaspurakan — 13 frames
• Kingdom of Georgia — 12 frames
• Abbasid Caliphate — 11 frames
• Seljuk Empire — 9 frames
• Sultanate of Rum — 9 frames
• Georgia — 9 frames
• Ayyubid dynasty — 8 frames
• Zengid dynasty — 8 frames
• Empire of Trebizond — 7 frames
• Khwarazmian Empire — 6 frames
• Khazars — 5 frames
• Mamluk dynasty (Delhi) — 5 frames
• Ziyarid dynasty — 5 frames
• Abbasid Caliphate — 4 frames
• Mongol Empire — 3 frames

Territory exchanged with

Computed from changes in territory between frames (only changes of about 20,000 km² or more are counted; these are not actual routes of advance). Top 19 by area.

Wikipedia summary

The Hamdanid dynasty (Arabic: الحمدانيون, romanized: al-Ḥamdāniyyūn) was a Shia Muslim Arab dynasty that ruled Upper Mesopotamia and Syria (890–1004). They descended from the ancient Banu Taghlib tribe of Mesopotamia and Arabia.

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