State · 1180 – 1918

Duchy of Styria

A state of 1180 – 1918 — 738 years in Europe. Its line of rulers holds 4 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: 738 years; 1180 – 1918
Rulers: 4; the Duke of Styria
Most ground: 16,800 km²; in 1260
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Duchy of Styria in 1260, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Duchy of Styria in 1260, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 16,800 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 Styria in 1260, 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 Styria in 1450, 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 recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Leopold VI of Austria	1194 – 1230	36 years	ending not on record
Béla IV of Hungary	1254 – 1260	6 years	ending not on record
Stephen V of Hungary	1258 – 1260	2 years	ending not on record	child
Otto, Duke of Austria	1330 – 1339	9 years	ending not on record

4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1194 – 1339. Median reign 7.5 years. 1 of 3 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.

300 km² in 1280, 2,000 km² in 1480; at its largest 2,000 km² in 1455. 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, undatedSteiermark Wappen · 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 stood738 years
stood longer than 94% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held16,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 19% 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 median9 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 31% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record4
has more rulers on record than 58% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1106 – 1992, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1260, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q580447 (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.