State · 793 – 946
Obotrites
A state of 793 – 946 — 153 years in Europe. The atlas records 2 things within it — wars and battles 1 · treaties 1. Its line of rulers holds 1 person.
- Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 793 to 946, 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
- 153 years
- 793 – 946
- Rulers
- 1
- the Prince
- Most ground
- 15,400 km²
- in 806
- Within it
- 2
- recorded rows
- Symbol
- 1
- on record, with years
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.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Witzan | 795 – 795 | under a year | ending not on record |
1 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 795 – 795. 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.
11,600 km² in 793, 15,100 km² in 946; at its largest 15,400 km² in 813. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flag or arms
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
flag, undatedSiedlungsgebiet Abodriten1 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · de:Benutzer:Marcel Rogge und de:Benutzer:Zweedorf22
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.
700 – 7991 row · 1 wars and battles
- Battle of Bornhöved · battle · 798
800 – 8991 row
- Treaty of Heiligen · treaty · 811
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 stood153 years
stood longer than 56% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held15,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 19% 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.
- Rulers on record1
has more rulers on record than 13% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
Theories that apply to its ending
Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.
Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 153
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 778 – 961, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 806, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q156108 (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.