State · 1205 – 1479

Despotate of Epirus

A state of 1205 – 1479 — 274 years in Europe. It was replaced by Duchy of Leucas and Ioannina sanjak. The atlas records 10 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 9. Its line of rulers holds 11 people, 6 with dated terms.

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

Stood: 274 years; 1205 – 1479
Rulers: 11; the Despot of Epirus
Most ground: 108,400 km²; in 1227
Within it: 10; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Despotate of Epirus in 1227, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Despotate of Epirus in 1227, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 108,400 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.

Despotate of Epirus in 1227, 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.

Despotate of Epirus in 1463, 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.

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

Duchy of Leucas · replaced by
Ioannina sanjak · replaced by

Rulers

The line of Despot of Epirus - the office this state names as its head of state.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular road

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas	1266 – 1297	31 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Thomas I Komnenos Doukas	1297 – 1318	21 years	killedWikidata's manner of death	child
Nicholas Orsini	1318 – 1323	5 years	killedWikidata's manner of death
John II Orsini	1323 – 1335	12 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	sibling
Nikephoros II Orsini	1335 – 1355	20 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Esau de' Buondelmonti	1385 – 1411	26 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone

11 rulers, 6 with terms dated as terms, covering 1266 – 1411. Median reign 20.5 years. 2 of 5 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.

48,000 km² in 1215, 2,100 km² in 1479; at its largest 108,400 km² in 1235. 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, from 1411Coat of arms of Carlo I Tocco in Arta · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Constantine Plakidas

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 – 12994 rows · 1 wars and battles

Michael II Komnenos Doukas · ruler · 1205 – 1268
Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas · ruler · 1240 – 1297
Thomas I Komnenos Doukas · ruler · 1285 – 1318
Battle of Neopatras · battle · 1270

1300 – 13994 rows

John II Orsini · ruler · 1300 – 1337
Carlo I Tocco · ruler · 1301 – 1429
Nikephoros II Orsini · ruler · 1328 – 1359
Esau de' Buondelmonti · ruler · 1355 – 1411

1400 – 14991 row

Leonardo III Tocco · ruler · 1401 – 1499

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 stood274 years
stood longer than 71% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held108,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 47% 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 median21 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 66% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record11
has more rulers on record than 83% 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.

in the articlelinked

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, 1178 – 1506, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1227, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q187684 (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.