Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 930 – 1262

Icelandic Commonwealth

A state of 930 – 1262 — 332 years in Europe. The atlas records 6 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 5. Its line of rulers holds 5 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
332 years
930 – 1262
Rulers
5
the Important chieftains (goðar)
Most ground
111,400 km²
in 936
Within it
6
recorded rows
Symbols
2
on record, with years
Map: Icelandic Commonwealth in 936, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Icelandic Commonwealth in 936, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 111,400 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.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Icelandic Commonwealth: 930 – 1262

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.

Sturla Sighvatsson · 1199 – 1238 · killed, the article saysKolbeinn ungi Arnórsson · 1208 – 1245 · no death date to read the end againstGissur Þorvaldsson · 1208 – 1268 · no death date to read the end againstÞórður kakali Sighvatsson · 1210 – 1256 · no death date to read the end againstSturla Þórðarson · 1214 – 1284 · no death date to read the end against100011001200
killed, executed or dead in battleending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Sturla Sighvatsson1199 – 123839 yearskilled, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Kolbeinn ungi Arnórsson1208 – 124537 yearsending not on record
Gissur Þorvaldsson1208 – 126860 yearsending not on record
Þórður kakali Sighvatsson1210 – 125646 yearsending not on record
Sturla Þórðarson1214 – 128470 yearsending not on record

5 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 1199 – 1284. Median reign 46 years. 4 of 4 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.

100011001200

111,400 km² in 955, 111,400 km² in 1262; at its largest 111,400 km² in 955. 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 of The Icelandic Commonwealth
    flag, undatedFlag of The Icelandic Commonwealth · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Skjoldbro
  • Coat of arms of the Icelandic Commonwealth
    coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of the Icelandic Commonwealth · Public domain

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.

900 – 999: 3 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 3 other9001000 – 1099: 1 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other10001100 – 1199: 1 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other11001200 – 1299: 1 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1200

900 – 9993 rows

1000 – 10991 row

1100 – 11991 row

1200 – 12991 row · 1 wars and battles

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 stood332 years

    stood longer than 76% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held111,400 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 47% 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 median46 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 93% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record5

    has more rulers on record than 64% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q62389 (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.