State · 1266 – 1435

Capetian House of Anjou

A state of 1266 – 1435 — 169 years in Europe. The atlas records 2 things within it — wars and battles 2.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 169 years; 1266 – 1435
Most ground: 80,700 km²; in 1279
Within it: 2; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Capetian House of Anjou in 1279, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Capetian House of Anjou in 1279, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 80,700 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.

Capetian House of Anjou in 1279, 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.

Capetian House of Anjou in 1375, 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.

59,500 km² in 1266, 42,100 km² in 1376; at its largest 80,400 km² in 1286. 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.

coat of arms, undatedBlason comte fr Anjou · 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.

1200 – 12992 rows · 2 wars and battles

Battle of Malta · battle · 1283
Siege of Berat · battle · 1280 – 1281

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 stood169 years
stood longer than 58% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held80,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 41% 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, 1249 – 1452, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1279, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q939200 (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.