State · 1206 – 1501

Auvergne

A state of 1206 – 1501 — 295 years in Europe.

Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 1206 to 1501, and those are the years drawn here.

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; 1206 – 1501
Most ground: 20,400 km²; in 1375
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Map: Auvergne in 1375, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Auvergne in 1375, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 20,400 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.

Auvergne in 1375, 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.

Auvergne in 1440, last 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.

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.

18,800 km² in 1206, 700 km² in 1501; at its largest 20,400 km² in 1376. 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 Auvergne · CC0
coat of arms, undatedBlason de l'Auvergne · CC BY-SA 3.0

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 stood295 years
stood longer than 72% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held20,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 22% 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.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1176 – 1531, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1375, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q1152 (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.