State · 1136 – 1478

Novgorod Republic

A state of 1136 – 1478 — 342 years in Europe. It replaced Principality of Novgorod. It was replaced by Tsardom of Russia. The atlas records 8 things within it — wars and battles 2 · treaties 3 · people 3. 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: 342 years; 1136 – 1478
Rulers: 5; the Grand Prince of Novgorod
Most ground: 1.59 million km²; in 1468
Within it: 8; recorded rows

Map: Novgorod Republic in 1468, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Novgorod Republic in 1468, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 1.59 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.

Novgorod Republic in 1126, 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.

Novgorod Republic in 1468, 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.

Before it

Principality of Novgorod · replaces

After it

Tsardom of Russia · replaced by · 1547 – 1721

Rulers

The line of Grand Prince of Novgorod - the office this state names as its head of state.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular road

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Rostyslav Yuriiovych	1138 – 1142	4 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Alexander Nevsky	1228 – 1229	1 year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Alexander Nevsky	1236 – 1252	16 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Alexander Nevsky	1257 – 1259	2 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Yury of Moscow	1322 – 1325	3 years	killedWikidata's manner of death	grandchild
Ivan I of Moscow	1328 – 1337	9 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	sibling
Ivan II of Moscow	1355 – 1359	4 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child

5 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 1138 – 1359. Median reign 4 years. 1 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.

539,200 km² in 1136, 143,300 km² in 1478; at its largest 1.50 million km² in 1336. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

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.

1200 – 12992 rows · 1 wars and battles

Alexander Nevsky · ruler · 1220 – 1263
Battle of the Neva · battle · 1240

1300 – 13994 rows

Treaty of Nöteborg · treaty · 1323
Uliana of Tver · person · 1331 – 1392
Mikhail II of Tver · person · 1333 – 1399
Treaty of Novgorod · treaty · 1326

1400 – 14992 rows · 1 wars and battles

Battle of Shelon · battle · 1471
Treaty of Yazhelbitsy · treaty · 1456

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 stood342 years
stood longer than 77% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held1,589,300 km²
held more ground at its peak than 89% 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 median4 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 13% 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.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 2 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.

in the articlelinked

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, 1102 – 1512, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1468, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q151536 (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.