State · 898 – 1235

Berga

A state of 898 – 1235 — 337 years in Europe.

Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 898 to 1235, 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: 337 years; 898 – 1235
Most ground: 8,800 km²; in 1188
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Map: Berga in 1188, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Berga in 1188, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 8,800 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.

Berga in 898, 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.

Berga in 1188, 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.

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.

4,100 km² in 898, 8,800 km² in 1235; at its largest 8,800 km² in 1198. 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, undatedBerga Spain · Public domain
coat of arms, undatedEscut de Berga · 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 stood337 years
stood longer than 76% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held8,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 13% 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, 864 – 1269, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1188, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q15487 (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.