State · 337 – 438

Vandals

A state of 337 – 438 — 101 years in Europe. The atlas records 1 thing within it — people 1.

Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 337 to 438, 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: 101 years; 337 – 438
Most ground: 420,100 km²; in 410
Within it: 1; recorded row

Map: Vandals in 410, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Vandals in 410, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 420,100 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.

Vandals in 337, 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.

Vandals in 410, 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.

31,800 km² in 337, 68,400 km² in 438; at its largest 91,300 km² in 407. 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.

300 – 3991 row

Gunderic · person · 379 – 428

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 stood101 years
stood longer than 47% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held420,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 71% 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.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 101

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 327 – 448, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 410, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q42211 (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.