// Middle Ages
Tulunids
- Period
- AD 875 – AD 910
- Duration
- approx. 35 years
- Greatest extent
- around AD 878
- Area (max.)
- approx. 974,000 km²
Period and duration
Tulunids — according to the map data from AD 875 to AD 910, roughly 35 years. The dates refer to the time the empire is drawn as its own territory on the world map; historians sometimes date its founding and end differently.
Greatest extent
Tulunids — greatest extent around AD 878: the mapped borders then cover about 974,000 km², roughly 0.7% of Earth's land area. The area is calculated from the border lines of the map and is therefore an approximation.
Predecessors and successors
States that ruled the same territory directly before and after:
Before (AD 874)
After
Neighbours around AD 878
The largest states in the region at the same time:
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Byzantine Empire
- Rustamid dynasty
- First Bulgarian Empire
- Aghlabid Dynasty
- Makuria
- Kingdom of the Iberians
- Duchy of Benevento
Learn more
- Open the world map in AD 878 — tap the empire for a detailed description
- Tulunids on Wikipedia
- All 300 empires at a glance
Borders and dates: Cliopatria / Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0). Coastlines: Natural Earth. Text: Centaurian.