State · 562 – 828
Avar Khaganate
A state of 562 – 828 — 266 years. It followed Kingdom of the Gepids. It was replaced by First Bulgarian Empire, Principality of Hungary and Panonian Slavs people and 1 more and followed by Old Great Bulgaria and Samo's Empire. The atlas records 1 thing within it — people 1. Its line of rulers holds 3 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 266 years
- 562 – 828
- Rulers
- 3
- the khagan of Avars
- Within it
- 1
- recorded row
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Kingdom of the Gepids · follows
After it
- Samo's Empire · followed by · 631 – 658
- Old Great Bulgaria · followed by · 632 – 668
- Panonian Slavs people · replaced by
- First Bulgarian Empire · replaced by · 681 – 1018
- Principality of Hungary · replaced by · 895 – 1000
- Avar March · replaced by
Rulers
The line of khagan of Avars.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kandik | 554 – 562 | 8 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Bayan I | 558 – 602 | 44 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Bayan II | 602 – 617 | 15 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone |
3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 554 – 617. Median reign 15 years. 1 of 2 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”.
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.
600 – 6991 row
- Bayan I · ruler · 600 – 602
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 stood266 years
stood longer than 70% 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 median15 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 49% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% 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 2 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.
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, 535 – 855, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 695, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
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