State · 523 – 691

Wihtwara

A state of 523 – 691 — 168 years in Europe. Its line of rulers holds 1 person.

Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 523 to 691, and those are the years drawn here.
Wikidata's English label: Kings of the Isle of Wight.

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

Stood: 168 years; 523 – 691
Rulers: 1; the Ruler
Most ground: 500 km²; in 523

Map: Wihtwara in 523, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Wihtwara in 523, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 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.

Where it sits in time

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

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

killed, executed or dead in battle

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Arwald	686 – 686	under a year	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article

1 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 686 – 686. 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.

500 km² in 523, 500 km² in 691; at its largest 500 km² in 523. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

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 stood168 years
stood longer than 58% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held500 km²
held more ground at its peak than 1% 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.
Rulers on record1
has more rulers on record than 13% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 506 – 708, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 523, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q3568009 (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.