State · 1080 – 1375

Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia

A state of 1080 – 1375 — 295 years in the Middle East and North Africa. The atlas records 5 things within it — wars and battles 1 · natural disasters 1 · people 3. Its line of rulers holds 13 people, 12 with dated terms.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 295 years; 1080 – 1375
Rulers: 13; the list of monarchs of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
Most ground: 59,600 km²; in 1192
Within it: 5; recorded rows
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Map: Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia in 1192, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia in 1192, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 59,600 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.

Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia in 1099, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia in 1192, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

The line of list of monarchs of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia - the office this state names as its head of state.

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removedending 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
Thoros I, Prince of Armenia	1100 – 1129	29 years	ending not on record
Constantine II, Prince of Armenia	1129 – 1129	under a year	ending not on record	child
Leo I, Prince of Armenia	1130 – 1137	7 years	ending not on record
Thoros II, Prince of Armenia	1145 – 1169	24 years	ending not on record	child
Ruben II, Prince of Armenia	1169 – 1170	1 year	ending not on record	child
Mleh	1170 – 1175	5 years	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Leo I, King of Armenia	1199 – 1219	20 years	ending not on record
Raymond-Roupen	1211 – 1219	8 years	ending not on record
Isabella, Queen of Armenia	1219 – 1252	33 years	ending not on record
Hethum I	1226 – 1270	44 years	abdicated, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	spouse
Leo II	1270 – 1289	19 years	ending not on record	child
Hethum II	1289 – 1293	4 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child

13 rulers, 12 with terms dated as terms, covering 1100 – 1293. Median reign 13.5 years. 3 of 11 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.

20,600 km² in 1100, 29,400 km² in 1370; at its largest 59,600 km² in 1200. 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, undatedFlag of the Rubenid Dynasty · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Samhanin
coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Samhanin

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.

1100 – 11992 rows

Leo I, King of Armenia · person · 1150 – 1219
Ruben III · ruler · 1145 – 1187

1200 – 12993 rows · 1 wars and battles

Isabella, Queen of Armenia · politician · 1212 – 1252
Battle of Mari · battle · 1266
1269 Cilicia earthquake · disaster · 1268

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 stood295 years
stood longer than 72% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held59,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 36% 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 median19 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 59% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record13
has more rulers on record than 85% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1050 – 1405, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1192, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q335088 (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.