State · 540 – 787

Bavarians

A state of 540 – 787 — 247 years in Europe. Its line of rulers holds 2 people.

Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 540 to 787, 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: 247 years; 540 – 787
Rulers: 2; the Duke of Bavaria
Most ground: 122,000 km²; in 750

Map: Bavarians in 750, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Bavarians in 750, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 122,000 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.

Bavarians in 540, 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.

Bavarians in 750, 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

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

ending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Garibald I of Bavaria	555 – 591	36 years	ending not on record
Tassilo I of Bavaria	591 – 610	19 years	ending not on record	child

2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 555 – 610. Median reign 27.5 years. 0 of 1 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.

76,500 km² in 540, 120,900 km² in 787; at its largest 122,000 km² in 750. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

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 stood247 years
stood longer than 68% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held122,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 49% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 43% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median36 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 90% of 1,083 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record2
has more rulers on record than 31% of 2,060 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 515 – 812, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 750, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q13048507 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-07 · Pastlas v2.13.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.