State · 988 – 1402
Principality of Chernihiv
A state of 988 – 1402 — 414 years in Europe. The atlas records 1 thing within it — people 1. Its line of rulers holds 5 people.
- Wikidata's English label: Principality of Chernigov.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 414 years
- 988 – 1402
- Rulers
- 5
- the Prince of Chernihiv
- Most ground
- 264,700 km²
- in 1072
- Within it
- 1
- recorded row
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mstyslav of Chernihiv | 1024 – 1035 | 11 years | ending not on record | |
| Sviatoslav II of Kyiv | 1054 – 1076 | 22 years | ending not on record | nephew or niece |
| Vsevolod I of Kyiv | 1073 – 1078 | 5 years | ending not on record | sibling |
| Boris Vyacheslavich | 1077 – 1077 | under a year | killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | nephew or niece |
| Volodymyr II Monomakh | 1078 – 1094 | 16 years | ending not on record |
5 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 1024 – 1094. Median reign 11 years. 3 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.
223,300 km² in 1063, 199,900 km² in 1238; at its largest 264,700 km² in 1088. 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.
coat of arms, undatedTryzub · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Emmerich Jakobson
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 – 11991 row
- Igor Svyatoslavich · person · 1151 – 1202
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 stood414 years
stood longer than 82% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held264,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 64% 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 median11 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 38% 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: 5 causes the record names and 0 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, 947 – 1443, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1072, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q1322662 (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.