State · 1084 – 1217

Grand Principality of Serbia

A state of 1084 – 1217 — 133 years in Europe. It was replaced by Kingdom of Serbia (1217–1346). The atlas records 2 things within it — people 2. Its line of rulers holds 7 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: 133 years; 1084 – 1217
Rulers: 7; the Grand Prince of Serbia
Most ground: 28,900 km²; in 1152
Within it: 2; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Grand Principality of Serbia in 1152, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Grand Principality of Serbia in 1152, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 28,900 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.

Grand Principality of Serbia in 1094, first 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.

Grand Principality of Serbia in 1152, 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.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

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

Kingdom of Serbia (1217–1346) · replaced by · 1217 – 1346

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

deposed, abdicated, exiled or removedending 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
Vukan of Rascia	1091 – 1112	21 years	ending not on record
Uroš I of Rascia	1112 – 1145	33 years	ending not on record	nephew or niece
Desa	1155 – 1155	under a year	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child
Tihomir of Serbia	1165 – 1166	1 year	ending not on record
Stefan Nemanja	1166 – 1196	30 years	abdicated, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	sibling
Stefan the First-Crowned	1196 – 1228	32 years	ending not on record	child
Vukan Nemanjić	1202 – 1204	2 years	ending not on record	sibling

7 rulers, 7 with terms dated as terms, covering 1091 – 1228. Median reign 21 years. 3 of 6 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.

19,800 km² in 1094, 28,900 km² in 1164; at its largest 28,900 km² in 1154. 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, undatedSeal of Stefan Nemanja · CC0

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.

1100 – 11992 rows

Saint Sava · politician · 1176 – 1235
Vukan Nemanjić · politician · 1165 – 1207

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 stood133 years
stood longer than 53% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held28,900 km²
held more ground at its peak than 27% 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 record7
has more rulers on record than 73% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 0 causes the record names and 1 result, 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.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending and 1 some of them; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 133

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1071 – 1230, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1152, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q1311990 (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.