State · 1172 – 1532

Duchy of Opole

A state of 1172 – 1532 — 360 years in Europe.

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

Stood: 360 years; 1172 – 1532
Most ground: 94,800 km²; in 1210
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Duchy of Opole in 1210, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Duchy of Opole in 1210, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 94,800 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.

Duchy of Opole in 1210, 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 Opole in 1285, 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.

6,600 km² in 1197, 6,700 km² in 1297; at its largest 18,000 km² in 1247. 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, undatedPOL województwo opolskie COA · 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 stood360 years
stood longer than 78% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held94,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 44% 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, 1136 – 1568, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1210, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q661980 (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.