State · 884 – 1045

Bagratid Armenia

A state of 884 – 1045 — 161 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It was followed by Kingdom of Georgia, Kingdom of Vaspurakan and Sasanian Armenia. The atlas records 2 things within it — wars and battles 1 · natural disasters 1. Its line of rulers holds 10 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: 161 years; 884 – 1045
Rulers: 10; the King
Most ground: 99,400 km²; in 886
Within it: 2; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Bagratid Armenia in 886, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Bagratid Armenia in 886, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 99,400 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.

Bagratid Armenia in 886, 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.

Bagratid Armenia in 1034, 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, 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.

After it

Kingdom of Georgia · followed by · 1008 – 1466
Sasanian Armenia · followed by
Kingdom of Vaspurakan · followed by · 908 – 1021

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

ending 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
Ashot I of Armenia	885 – 890	5 years	ending not on record
Smbat I of Armenia	890 – 914	24 years	ending not on record	child
Ashot II of Armenia	914 – 928	14 years	ending not on record	child
Abas I of Armenia	928 – 953	25 years	ending not on record	sibling
Ashot III of Armenia	953 – 977	24 years	ending not on record	child
Smbat II of Armenia	977 – 989	12 years	ending not on record	child
Gagik I of Armenia	989 – 1020	31 years	ending not on record	sibling
Hovhannes-Smbat III of Armenia	1020 – 1040	20 years	ending not on record	child
Ashot IV Qadj	1020 – 1040	20 years	ending not on record	sibling
Gagik II of Armenia	1042 – 1045	3 years	ending not on record	child

10 rulers, 10 with terms dated as terms, covering 885 – 1045. Median reign 20 years. 1 of 9 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.

98,000 km² in 894, 39,400 km² in 1045; at its largest 98,200 km² in 904. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

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

emblem, undatedBagratunis symbol · Public domain

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.

800 – 8991 row

893 Dvin earthquake · disaster · 893

1000 – 10991 row · 1 wars and battles

Battle of Ani · battle · 1042

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 stood161 years
stood longer than 57% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held99,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 45% 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 median20 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 62% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record10
has more rulers on record than 80% 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.

linkedcoincidence

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, 868 – 1061, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 886, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q2622868 (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.