Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 793 – 1332

Vikings

A state of 793 – 1332 — 539 years in Europe. The atlas records 1 thing within it — wars and battles 1.

  • Wikidata records a founding in 745 and no end; the borders dataset maps it from 793 to 1332, 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
539 years
793 – 1332
Most ground
134,000 km²
in 876
Within it
1
recorded row
Map: Vikings in 876, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Vikings in 876, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 134,000 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.
Vikings in 793, first mapped

793 · first mapped · 5,700 km²

Vikings in 876, at its largest

876 · at its largest · 134,000 km²

Vikings in 1326, last mapped

1326 · last mapped · 400 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 BCE110002000Vikings: 793 – 1332

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.

8009001000110012001300

5,700 km² in 793, 400 km² in 1332; at its largest 82,900 km² in 868. 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 – 799: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other700800 – 899: 1 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other800900 – 999: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other9001000 – 1099: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other10001100 – 1199: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other11001200 – 1299: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other12001300 – 1399: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1300

800 – 8991 row · 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 stood539 years

    stood longer than 88% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held134,000 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 52% 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

Wikidata Q12567 (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.