State · 570 – 1081

Duchy of Benevento

A state of 570 – 1081 — 511 years in Europe. The atlas records 2 things within it — wars and battles 2. Its line of rulers holds 2 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: 511 years; 570 – 1081
Rulers: 2; the Duke
Most ground: 46,400 km²; in 775
Within it: 2; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Duchy of Benevento in 775, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Duchy of Benevento in 775, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 46,400 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.

Duchy of Benevento in 775, 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.

Duchy of Benevento in 1066, 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.

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
Zotto	571 – 591	20 years	ending not on record
Arechis II of Benevento	758 – 774	16 years	ending not on record

2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 571 – 774. Median reign 18 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.

46,200 km² in 745, 11,900 km² in 1081; at its largest 46,200 km² in 745. 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, undatedLombard Calvary cross potent (transparent) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Dragovit

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 · 1 wars and battles

Siege of Syracuse · battle · 827 – 828

1000 – 10991 row · 1 wars and battles

Battle of Civitate · battle · 1053

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 stood511 years
stood longer than 87% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held46,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 34% 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 record2
has more rulers on record than 34% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 519 – 1132, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 775, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q267816 (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.