State · 476 – 718

Visigothic Kingdom

A state of 476 – 718 — 242 years in Europe. It replaced Western Roman Empire and Kingdom of the Suebi. It was replaced by al-Andalus. The atlas records 28 things within it — wars and battles 3 · treaties 1 · people 24. Its line of rulers holds 29 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: 242 years; 476 – 718
Rulers: 29; the king of Wisigoths
Most ground: 688,700 km²; in 490
Within it: 28; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Visigothic Kingdom in 490, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Visigothic Kingdom in 490, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 688,700 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.

Visigothic Kingdom in 490, 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.

Visigothic Kingdom in 718, 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, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Kingdom of the Suebi · replaces · 409 – 585
Western Roman Empire · replaces · 285 – 476

After it

al-Andalus · replaced by

Rulers

The line of king of Wisigoths.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Euric	466 – 484	18 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Alaric II	484 – 507	23 years	died in battleWikidata's manner of death	child
Amalaric	510 – 531	21 years	killedWikidata's manner of death	child
Theudis	531 – 548	17 years	killedWikidata's manner of death
Theudigisel	548 – 549	1 year	killedWikidata's manner of death
Agila I	549 – 555	6 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Athanagild	555 – 567	12 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Liuva I	567 – 572	5 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Liuvigild	568 – 586	18 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Reccared I	586 – 601	15 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Liuva II	601 – 603	2 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Witteric	603 – 610	7 years	killedWikidata's manner of death
Gundemar	610 – 612	2 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Sisebut	612 – 621	9 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Reccared II	621 – 621	under a year	ending not on record	child
Suintila	621 – 631	10 years	ending not on record
Recimir	625 – 631	6 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Sisenand	631 – 636	5 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Chintila	636 – 639	3 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Tulga	639 – 642	3 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Chindasuinth	642 – 653	11 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Recceswinth	653 – 672	19 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Wamba	672 – 680	8 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Erwig	680 – 687	7 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Egica	687 – 702	15 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	in-law
Wittiza	700 – 710	10 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Roderic	710 – 711	1 year	ended by a named eventWikidata's end cause on the term
Achila II	710 – 713	3 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Ardo	713 – 720	7 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone

29 rulers, 29 with terms dated as terms, covering 466 – 720. Median reign 7 years. 10 of 28 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.

668,700 km² in 476, 99,900 km² in 718; at its largest 688,700 km² in 496. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

coin, undatedLeovigild CNG 97-722237 (obverse) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · You may select the license of your choice.

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.

400 – 4993 rows · 1 wars and battles

Alaric II · ruler · 458 – 507
Theudis · ruler · 480 – 548
Franco-Visigothic Wars · war · 492 – 589

500 – 59910 rows

Reccared I · ruler · 559 – 601
Liuvigild · ruler · 519 – 586
Amalaric · ruler · 502 – 531
Theudigisel · ruler · 500 – 549
Sisebut · ruler · 565 – 621
Liuva I · ruler · 550 – 572
Chindasuinth · ruler · 563 – 653
Reccared II · ruler · 551 – 621

and 2 more in the atlas.

600 – 69910 rows

Roderic · ruler · 688 – 711
Wamba · ruler · 633 – 688
Gundemar · ruler · 600 – 612
Egica · ruler · 610 – 702
Wittiza · ruler · 686 – 710
Sisenand · ruler · 605 – 636
Chintila · ruler · 606 – 639
Erwig · ruler · 643 – 687

and 2 more in the atlas.

700 – 7995 rows · 2 wars and battles

Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula · battle · 711 – 726
Battle of Guadalete · battle · 711
Ardo · ruler · 700 – 721
Theodemir · person · 700 – 743
Treaty of Orihuela · treaty · 713

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 stood242 years
stood longer than 68% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held688,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 79% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century0.4
had more wars on record per century than 90% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median7 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 26% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record29
has more rulers on record than 94% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 4 causes the record names and 1 result, 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, 452 – 742, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 490, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q126936 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.