State · 1192 – 1489

Kingdom of Cyprus

A state of 1192 – 1489 — 297 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It was replaced by Venetian Cyprus. The atlas records 20 things within it — wars and battles 2 · people 18. Its line of rulers holds 17 people, 16 with dated terms.

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

Stood: 297 years; 1192 – 1489
Rulers: 17; the king of Cyprus
Most ground: 12,600 km²; in 1363
Within it: 20; recorded rows
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Map: Kingdom of Cyprus in 1363, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Kingdom of Cyprus in 1363, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 12,600 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

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

Venetian Cyprus · replaced by · 1489 – 1571

Rulers

The line of king of Cyprus.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending 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
Walter of Montbéliard	1205 – 1210	5 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Hugh I of Cyprus	1205 – 1218	13 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Philip of Ibelin	1218 – 1228	10 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Henry I of Cyprus	1218 – 1253	35 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
John, Old Lord of Beirut	1228 – 1232	4 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Hugh II of Cyprus	1253 – 1267	14 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Plaisance of Antioch	1254 – 1261	7 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	parent
Hugh III of Cyprus	1261 – 1284	23 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Henry II of Cyprus	1285 – 1324	39 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Peter I of Cyprus	1358 – 1369	11 years	killedWikidata's manner of death
Peter II of Cyprus	1369 – 1382	13 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
James I of Cyprus	1382 – 1398	16 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
John II of Cyprus	1432 – 1458	26 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	grandchild
James II of Cyprus	1460 – 1473	13 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
James III of Cyprus	1473 – 1474	1 year	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Catherine Cornaro	1474 – 1489	15 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	parent

17 rulers, 16 with terms dated as terms, covering 1205 – 1489. Median reign 13 years. 5 of 15 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.

11,400 km² in 1192, 11,400 km² in 1489; at its largest 12,600 km² in 1372. 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, undatedRoyal banner of Janus of Cyprus · CC0
coat of arms, undatedCoat of Arms of the House of Lusignan (Kings of Armenia, Cyprus and Jerusalem) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · James2813

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 – 11993 rows

Hugh I of Cyprus · ruler · 1193 – 1218
John, Old Lord of Beirut · ruler · 1179 – 1236
Philip of Ibelin · ruler · 1180 – 1227

1200 – 129910 rows · 2 wars and battles

Sixth Crusade · war · 1228 – 1229
Hugh III of Cyprus · ruler · 1235 – 1284
Henry II of Cyprus · ruler · 1271 – 1324
Henry I of Cyprus · ruler · 1217 – 1253
Hugh IV of Cyprus · ruler · 1294 – 1359
Hugh II of Cyprus · ruler · 1253 – 1267
Plaisance of Antioch · ruler · 1235 – 1261
Amalric, Lord of Tyre · person · 1272 – 1310

and 2 more in the atlas.

1300 – 13993 rows

Peter I of Cyprus · ruler · 1328 – 1369
Peter II of Cyprus · ruler · 1357 – 1382
James I of Cyprus · ruler · 1334 – 1398

1400 – 14994 rows

Catherine Cornaro · ruler · 1454 – 1510
John II of Cyprus · ruler · 1418 – 1458
James III of Cyprus · ruler · 1473 – 1474
James II of Cyprus · ruler · 1438 – 1473

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 stood297 years
stood longer than 73% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held12,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 17% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century0.7
had more wars on record per century than 91% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median13 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 44% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record17
has more rulers on record than 90% 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 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.

linkedcoincidence

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, 1162 – 1519, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1363, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q213638 (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.