State · 1010 – 1508

Principality of Smolensk

A state of 1010 – 1508 — 498 years in Europe. The atlas records 3 things within it — people 3. Its line of rulers holds 7 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: 498 years; 1010 – 1508
Rulers: 7; the Grand Prince of Smolensk
Most ground: 150,300 km²; in 1294
Within it: 3; recorded rows

Map: Principality of Smolensk in 1294, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Principality of Smolensk in 1294, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 150,300 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 Smolensk in 1294, 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.

Principality of Smolensk in 1402, last 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.

Where it sits in time

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

Rulers

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

died in officeleft alive by a regular road

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Stanislav Volodymyrovych of Kyiv, Prince of Smolensk	1010 – 1015	5 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Yaroslav the Wise	1015 – 1054	39 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Vyacheslav Yaroslavich	1054 – 1057	3 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Igor Yaroslavich	1057 – 1060	3 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Iziaslav I of Kyiv	1060 – 1068	8 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	sibling
Vsevolod I of Kyiv	1068 – 1073	5 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	sibling
Volodymyr II Monomakh	1073 – 1078	5 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child

7 rulers, 7 with terms dated as terms, covering 1010 – 1078. Median reign 5 years. 0 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.

115,600 km² in 1060, 75,300 km² in 1385; at its largest 150,300 km² in 1310. 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.

1000 – 10992 rows

Igor Yaroslavich · ruler · 1036 – 1060
Vyacheslav Yaroslavich · ruler · 1036 – 1057

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 stood498 years
stood longer than 86% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held150,300 km²
held more ground at its peak than 54% 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 median5 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 18% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record7
has more rulers on record than 73% 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.

linked

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, 960 – 1558, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1294, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q1483495 (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.