State · 793 – 1066

Viking Age

A state of 793 – 1066 — 273 years in Europe. The atlas records 7 things within it — people 7.

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

Stood: 273 years; 793 – 1066
Most ground: 423,900 km²; in 825
Within it: 7; recorded rows

Map: Viking Age in 825, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Viking Age in 825, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 423,900 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.

Viking Age in 825, 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.

Viking Age in 1000, 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.

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.

420,900 km² in 803, 117,100 km² in 993; at its largest 423,900 km² in 833. 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.

800 – 8997 rows

Rollo · commander · 860 – 932
Harald Fairhair · person · 851 – 933
Ingólfr Arnarson · explorer · 848 – 910
Hastein · explorer · 810 – 896
Grímur Kamban · explorer · 801 – 899
Rorik of Dorestad · person · 801 – 882
Aud the Deep-Minded · explorer · 834 – 900

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 stood273 years
stood longer than 71% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held423,900 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.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause 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.

in the article

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, 766 – 1093, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 825, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q213649 (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.