State · 500 – 1160
Kingdom of Powys
A state of 500 – 1160 — 660 years in Europe. It replaced Roman Britain. It was replaced by Northern Powys and Southern Powys. The atlas records 8 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 7. Its line of rulers holds 10 people, 4 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
- 660 years
- 500 – 1160
- Rulers
- 10
- the King of Powys
- Most ground
- 5,700 km²
- in 626
- Within it
- 8
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
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.
Before it
- Roman Britain · replaces
After it
- Northern Powys · replaced by · 1160 – 1277
- Southern Powys · replaced by · 1160 – 1283
Rulers
The line of King of Powys.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhodri Mawr | 855 – 878 | 23 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Merfyn ap Rhodri | 878 – 900 | 22 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | child |
| Llywelyn ap Merfyn | 900 – 942 | 42 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Bleddyn ap Cynfyn | 1063 – 1075 | 12 years | killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article |
10 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 855 – 1075. Median reign 22.5 years. 0 of 3 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.
5,600 km² in 550, 4,400 km² in 1160; at its largest 5,600 km² in 550. 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.
coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of Powys · CC BY-SA 3.0 · AlexD 
flag, undatedFlag of Powys · CC BY-SA 3.0 · AlexD
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.
600 – 6992 rows · 1 wars and battles
- Battle of Maserfield · battle · 642
- Gwylog ap Beli · ruler · 601 – 725
700 – 7993 rows
- Elisedd ap Gwylog · ruler · 700 – 755
- Cyngen ap Cadell · ruler · 778 – 854
- Brochfael ab Elisedd · ruler · 701 – 773
800 – 8993 rows
- Merfyn ap Rhodri · ruler · 850 – 903
- Llywelyn ap Merfyn · ruler · 880 – 942
- Cadell ap Brochfael · ruler · 800 – 808
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 stood660 years
stood longer than 92% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held5,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 11% 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 median23 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 70% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record10
has more rulers on record than 80% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 2 causes the record names and 2 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.
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, 434 – 1226, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 626, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q769782 (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.