State · 283 – 799

Saxons

A state of 283 – 799 — 516 years in Europe. The atlas records 2 things within it — unrest and atrocity 1 · people 1.

Wikidata records a founding in 500 and no end; the borders dataset maps it from 283 to 799, 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: 516 years; 283 – 799
Most ground: 82,500 km²; in 455
Within it: 2; recorded rows

Map: Saxons in 455, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Saxons in 455, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 82,500 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.

Saxons in 283, first 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.

Saxons in 455, 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.

Where it sits in time

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

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.

6,300 km² in 283, 81,200 km² in 799; at its largest 82,500 km² in 458. 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.

700 – 7992 rows · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres

Widukind · commander · 755 – 807
Massacre of Verden · atrocity · 782

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 stood516 years
stood longer than 87% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held82,500 km²
held more ground at its peak than 41% 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.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 231 – 851, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 455, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q101985 (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.