State · 900 – 1397
Principality of Polotsk
A state of 900 – 1397 — 497 years in Europe. The atlas records 4 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 3. Its line of rulers holds 4 people, 3 with dated terms. Its own article says it was partitioned by his surviving sons.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 497 years
- 900 – 1397
- Rulers
- 4
- the head of state
- Within it
- 4
- recorded rows
- Symbol
- 1
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
How it ended, as its article says
Partitioned by his surviving sons. Read from the article's section “History - Decline” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.
After his defeat at the Battle on the river Nemiga and temporary imprisonment, Vseslav died, and the principality was divided between his surviving sons.
One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rulers
The line of head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iziaslav of Polotsk | 988 – 1001 | 13 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Vseslav Iziaslavych | 1001 – 1003 | 2 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Bryachislav of Polotsk | 1003 – 1044 | 41 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | sibling |
4 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 988 – 1044. Median reign 13 years. 0 of 2 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”.
Flag or arms
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
seal, undatedIziaslav of Polock Seal avers · CC0
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.
900 – 9993 rows
- Rogvolod · ruler · 901 – 978
- Bryachislav of Polotsk · ruler · 997 – 1044
- Vseslav Iziaslavych · ruler · 990 – 1003
1000 – 10991 row · 1 wars and battles
- Battle on the Nemiga River · battle · 1067
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 stood497 years
stood longer than 86% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- 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 median13 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 44% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record4
has more rulers on record than 58% 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.
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, 850 – 1447, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1149, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q517333 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.