State · 972 – 1301

Árpád dynasty

A state of 972 – 1301 — 329 years in Europe. Its line of rulers holds 20 people.

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Stood: 329 years; 972 – 1301
Rulers: 20; the Apostolic King of Hungary
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Where it sits in time

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

Rulers

The line of Apostolic King of Hungary.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roada 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
Stephen I of Hungary	1000 – 1038	38 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Andrew I of Hungary	1047 – 1060	13 years	died by accidentWikidata's manner of death
Béla I of Hungary	1060 – 1063	3 years	died by accidentWikidata's manner of death	sibling
Solomon	1063 – 1074	11 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	nephew or niece
Géza I of Hungary	1074 – 1077	3 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Ladislaus I of Hungary	1077 – 1095	18 years	died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term	sibling
Coloman	1095 – 1116	21 years	died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term	nephew or niece
Stephen II of Hungary	1116 – 1131	15 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	child
Béla II of Hungary	1131 – 1141	10 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Géza II of Hungary	1141 – 1162	21 years	died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term	child
Ladislaus II of Hungary	1161 – 1162	1 year	killedWikidata's manner of death	sibling
Stephen III of Hungary	1162 – 1172	10 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	nephew or niece
Stephen IV of Hungary	1163 – 1165	2 years	killedWikidata's manner of death
Emeric, King of Hungary	1196 – 1204	8 years	died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term
Ladislaus III of Hungary	1204 – 1205	1 year	died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term	child
Andrew II of Hungary	1205 – 1235	30 years	died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term
Béla IV of Hungary	1235 – 1270	35 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Stephen V of Hungary	1270 – 1272	2 years	died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term	child
Ladislaus IV of Hungary	1272 – 1290	18 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Andrew III of Hungary	1290 – 1301	11 years	died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term

20 rulers, 20 with terms dated as terms, covering 1000 – 1301. Median reign 11 years. 4 of 19 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”.

Flag or arms

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

coat of arms, undatedAlex K Kingdom of Hungary · Public domain

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 stood329 years
stood longer than 76% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
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 median11 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 38% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record20
has more rulers on record than 91% 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, 939 – 1334, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1137, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q51153 (CC0) · 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.