State · 106 – 673

Huns

A state of 106 – 673 — 567 years in Europe. Its line of rulers holds 12 people.

Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 106 to 673, 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: 567 years; 106 – 673
Rulers: 12; the King of the Huns
Most ground: 1.91 million km²; in 451

Map: Huns in 451, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Huns in 451, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 1.91 million 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.

Huns in 106, 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.

Huns in 451, 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.

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
Balamber	370 – 370	under a year	ending not on record
Kursich	395 – 395	under a year	ending not on record
Basich	395 – 395	under a year	ending not on record
Uldin	400 – 409	9 years	ending not on record
Charaton	412 – 412	under a year	ending not on record
Octar	420 – 430	10 years	ending not on record
Rugila	430 – 430	under a year	ending not on record	sibling
Attila	434 – 434	under a year	ending not on record	nephew or niece
Bleda	434 – 445	11 years	ending not on record	sibling
Ellac	453 – 454	1 year	ending not on record	nephew or niece
Ernak	453 – 469	16 years	ending not on record	sibling
Dengizich	454 – 469	15 years	ending not on record	sibling

12 rulers, 12 with terms dated as terms, covering 370 – 469. Median reign 0.5 years. 2 of 11 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.

58,300 km² in 106, 0 km² in 673; at its largest 1.44 million km² in 406. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

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 stood567 years
stood longer than 89% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held1,907,500 km²
held more ground at its peak than 90% 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 median1 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 2% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record12
has more rulers on record than 84% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 0 results, 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.

in the article

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

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 49 – 730, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 451, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q45813 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.