Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 768 – 969

Principality of Serbia (early medieval)

A state of 768 – 969 — 201 years in Europe. The atlas records 3 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 2. Its line of rulers holds 11 people, 9 with dated terms. Its own article says it was conquered by Byzantine Empire.

  • Wikidata's English label: Principality of Serbia.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood
201 years
768 – 969
Rulers
11
the tsar
Most ground
61,200 km²
in 922
Within it
3
recorded rows
Symbol
1
on record, with years
Map: Principality of Serbia (early medieval) in 922, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Principality of Serbia (early medieval) in 922, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 61,200 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.
Principality of Serbia (early medieval) in 768, first mapped

768 · first mapped · 24,300 km²

Principality of Serbia (early medieval) in 922, at its largest

922 · at its largest · 61,200 km²

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

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Principality of Serbia (early medieval): 768 – 969

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

How it ended, as its article says

Conquered by Byzantine Empire, 969. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

The principality was annexed by the Byzantine Empire in c. 969–971 and ruled as the Catepanate of Ras.

One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rulers

The line of tsar.

Višeslav of Serbia · 780 – 780 · no death date to read the end againstProsigoj of Serbia · 830 – 830 · no death date to read the end againstRadoslav of Serbia · 830 – 830 · no death date to read the end againstMutimir of Serbia · 850 – 891 · no death date to read the end againstPribislav of Serbia · 891 – 892 · no death date to read the end againstPetar of Serbia · 892 – 917 · deposed, the article saysPavle of Serbia · 917 – 921 · no death date to read the end againstZaharija of Serbia · 921 – 925 · no death date to read the end againstČaslav of Serbia · 933 – 943 · no death date to read the end against800850900950
deposed, abdicated, exiled or removedending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Višeslav of Serbia780 – 780under a yearending not on record
Prosigoj of Serbia830 – 830under a yearending not on recordgrandchild
Radoslav of Serbia830 – 830under a yearending not on recordparent
Mutimir of Serbia850 – 89141 yearsending not on record
Pribislav of Serbia891 – 8921 yearending not on recordchild
Petar of Serbia892 – 91725 yearsdeposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Pavle of Serbia917 – 9214 yearsending not on record
Zaharija of Serbia921 – 9254 yearsending not on record
Časlav of Serbia933 – 94310 yearsending not on record

11 rulers, 9 with terms dated as terms, covering 780 – 943. Median reign 4 years. 2 of 8 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.

800850900950

24,300 km² in 768, 60,900 km² in 958; at its largest 60,900 km² in 938. 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.

  • Seal of Strojimir
    seal, undatedSeal of Strojimir · Public domain

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 – 799: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other700800 – 899: 3 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 2 other800900 – 999: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other900

800 – 8993 rows · 1 wars and battles

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 stood201 years

    stood longer than 63% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held61,200 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 36% 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 record11

    has more rulers on record than 83% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q13107370 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · 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.