State · 612 – 787

Frisia

A state of 612 – 787 — 175 years in Europe.

Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 612 to 787, and those are the years drawn here.

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

Stood: 175 years; 612 – 787
Most ground: 63,500 km²; in 612
Symbols: 3; on record, with years

Map: Frisia in 612, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Frisia in 612, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 63,500 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.

Frisia in 612, 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.

Frisia in 783, 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.

63,500 km² in 612, 12,900 km² in 787; at its largest 63,500 km² in 612. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedFlag of Frisia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Ætoms
flag, undatedInterfrisian Flag · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lirion
coat of arms, undatedCoat of Arms of Frisia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Marcus365

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 stood175 years
stood longer than 59% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held63,500 km²
held more ground at its peak than 37% 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, 594 – 805, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 612, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q4492881 (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.