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Post-Roman Successor States & Islamic Golden Age500 CE – 1000 CELive Cartographic Data

Early Middle Ages Map: The World 500–1000 AD

The rise of Islam uniting Afro-Eurasian trade, the Byzantine preservation of Roman continuity, Tang China’s cultural zenith, and the Carolingian renaissance in Europe.

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Temporal Span
500 CE – 1000 CE
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Post-Roman Successor States & Islamic Golden Age
Featured Sovereign States
263 Documented Empires
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Historical & Spatial Evolution

Following the fragmentation of the Western Roman Empire, new dynamic imperial models took root. The Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates established an immense zone of scientific inquiry and commerce extending from Iberia to the Indus. Tang Dynasty China built the largest city in the world at Chang’an, integrating the Grand Canal with maritime Silk Road ports at Guangzhou.

Technological & Geopolitical Innovations

  • ✓Islamic Golden Age of algebra, optics, medicine, and cartography (House of Wisdom)
  • ✓Tang Dynasty expansion along the Tarim Basin and Grand Canal completion
  • ✓Viking and Varangian riverine trade routes linking Scandinavia to Byzantium
  • ✓Invention of block printing in China and early paper mills in Samarkand and Baghdad

Featured Sovereign Polities

The Byzantine Empire2.7M km²

The direct continuation of the Roman Empire in the East, guarding the frontier of Europe and the Bosporus for over a millennium until the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

The Tang Dynasty5.4M km²

The cosmopolitan Golden Age of medieval Chinese civilization, celebrated for poetic genius, woodblock printing, Buddhist pilgrimages, and the Pax Sinica.

The Umayyad Caliphate11.1M km²

The vast first dynastic caliphate in world history, uniting 11 million km² from the Atlantic shores of Spain and Morocco to the Indus River and Central Asia.

The Abbasid Caliphate11.1M km²

The Golden Age of Islamic civilization, centering in Baghdad’s House of Wisdom, pioneering algebra, optics, medicine, and global trade across the Silk Road.

Allegiance of Ziyadid dynasty to Abbasid Caliphate7.7M km²

The Ziyadid dynasty was a Muslim dynasty that ruled western Yemen from 819 until 1018 from the capital city of Zabid.

Rashidun Caliphate7.1M km²

The Rashidun Caliphate was the early Islamic polity led by the first four successive caliphs (lit.

Göktürk Khaganate6.4M km²

Göktürk Khaganate is mapped in the atlas for 555 CE – 586 CE, with a peak mapped extent of about 6,419,739 km².

Alliance between Sasanian Empire and Byzantine Empire5.3M km²

The Sasanian Empire, officially Eranshahr, was an Iranian empire that was founded and ruled by the House of Sasan from 224 to 651 AD.

Western Göktürks4.2M km²

The Göktürks, also known as Türks, Celestial Turks or Blue Turks, were a Turkic people in medieval Inner Asia.

Türgesh4.0M km²

The Türgesh or Türgish were a Turkic tribal confederation.

Uyghur Khaganate3.9M km²

The Uyghur Khaganate, self defined as the Toquz Oghuz and known to the Tang Chinese as the Jiuxing was a Turkic empire that existed for about a century between the mid 8th and 9th centuries.

Tibetan Empire3.9M km²

The Tibetan Empire was centered on the Tibetan Plateau and formed as a result of expansions under the Yarlung dynasty's 33rd king, Songtsen Gampo, in the 7th century.

Sui Dynasty3.4M km²

The Sui dynasty was a Chinese imperial dynasty that ruled from 581 to 618 AD.

Alliance between Samanid Empire and Ziyadid dynasty3.3M km²

The Samanid Empire was a Persianate Sunni Muslim empire, ruled by a dynasty of Iranian dehqan origin, from 819 to 999.

Samanid Empire3.1M km²

The Samanid Empire was a Persianate Sunni Muslim empire, ruled by a dynasty of Iranian dehqan origin, from 819 to 999.

Kimek-Kipchak confederation3.0M km²

The Kimak–Kipchak confederation was a medieval Turkic state formed by seven peoples, including the Kimaks and Kipchaks, in the area between the Ob and Irtysh rivers.

Ghaznavid Empire3.0M km²

The Ghaznavid Empire was a culturally Persianate, Sunni Muslim state of Turkic Karluk origin.

Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms3.0M km²

The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period was an era of political upheaval and division in Imperial China from 907 to 979 CE.

Eastern Göktürks2.8M km²

The Göktürks, also known as Türks, Celestial Turks or Blue Turks, were a Turkic people in medieval Inner Asia.

Allegiance of Ostrogothic Kingdom to Eastern Roman Empire2.8M km²

The Ostrogothic Kingdom, officially the Kingdom of Italy, was a barbarian kingdom established by the Germanic Ostrogoths that controlled Italy and neighbouring areas between 493 and 553.

Alliance between Byzantine Empire and Khazaria2.7M km²

The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Eastern Roman Empire2.6M km²

The direct continuation of the Roman Empire in the East, guarding the frontier of Europe and the Bosporus for over a millennium until the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

Saffarid Dynasty2.4M km²

The Saffarid dynasty was a culturally Persianate dynasty of eastern Iranian origin that ruled over parts of Persia, Khorasan, and eastern Makran from 861 to 1002.

Liang Dynasty2.4M km²

The Liang dynasty, alternatively known as the Southern Liang or Xiao Liang in historiography, was an imperial dynasty of China and the third of the four Southern dynasties during the Northern and Southern dynasties period.

Fatimid Caliphate1.9M km²

The Fatimid Caliphate, also known as the Fatimid Empire, was a caliphate that existed from the tenth to the twelfth centuries CE under the rule of the Fatimids, an Isma'ili Shi'a dynasty.

Liao Dynasty1.9M km²

The Liao dynasty, also known as the Khitan State, officially the Great Liao, was a Khitan-led imperial dynasty of China and empire ruled by the Yelü clan that existed between 916 and 1125.

Tibetans1.9M km²

Tibetans are an East Asian ethnic group native to Tibet.

Northern Zhou1.8M km²

Zhou, known in historiography as the Northern Zhou, was a Xianbei-led dynasty of China that lasted from 557 to 581 AD.

Later Tang1.6M km²

The cosmopolitan Golden Age of medieval Chinese civilization, celebrated for poetic genius, woodblock printing, Buddhist pilgrimages, and the Pax Sinica.

Pala Empire1.4M km²

The Pāla Empire was an early medieval Indian empire ruled by the Pāla dynasty.

Carolingian Empire1.3M km²

The Kingdom of the Franks, also known as the Frankish Kingdom or Francia, was the largest post-Roman kingdom in Western Europe.

Kara-Khanids1.3M km²

The Kara-Khanid Khanate, also known as the Karakhanids, Qarakhanids, Ilek Khanids or the Afrasiabids, was a Karluk Turkic khanate that ruled Central Asia from the 9th to the early 13th century.

Buyid Dynasty1.3M km²

The Buyid dynasty or Buyid Empire was a Zaydi and later Twelver Shi'a dynasty of Daylamite origin.

Allegiance of East Franks to Carolingian Empire1.2M km²

East Francia or the Kingdom of the East Franks was a successor state of the Carolingian Empire ruled by the Carolingian dynasty until 911.

Alliance between Ostrogothic Kingdom and Visigothic Kingdom1.2M km²

The Ostrogothic Kingdom, officially the Kingdom of Italy, was a barbarian kingdom established by the Germanic Ostrogoths that controlled Italy and neighbouring areas between 493 and 553.

Kievan Rus'1.2M km²

Kievan Rus', also known as Kyivan Rus', was the first East Slavic state and, later, an amalgam of principalities, in Eastern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century.

West Franks1.2M km²

In medieval historiography, West Francia or the Kingdom of the West Franks constitutes the initial stage of the Kingdom of France and extends from the Treaty of Verdun in 843 to 987, the beginning of the Capetian dynasty.

Rashtrakuta Dynasty1.1M km²

The Rashtrakuta Empire was an early medieval Indian empire ruling large parts of the Indian subcontinent between the 6th and 10th centuries.

Hamdanid Emirates1.1M km²

The Hamdanid dynasty was a Shia Muslim Arab dynasty that ruled Upper Mesopotamia and Syria (890–1004).

Harsha's Empire1.1M km²

Harshavardhana was the emperor of Kannauj from April 606 until his death in 647.

Avar Khaganate1.0M km²

The Pannonian Avars or Carpathian Avars were a confederation of Eurasian nomads.

Chen Dynasty1.0M km²

The Chen dynasty, alternatively known as the Southern Chen in historiography, was a Chinese imperial dynasty and the fourth and last of the Southern dynasties during the Northern and Southern dynasties period.

Tulunids1.0M km²

The Tulunid State, also known as the Tulunid Emirate or the State of Banu Tulun, and popularly referred to as the Tulunids was a Mamluk dynasty of Turkic origin who ruled Egypt on behalf of the Abbasid Caliphate.

Turks1.0M km²

Turks is mapped in the atlas for 666 CE – 756 CE, with a peak mapped extent of about 967,663 km².

Chalukya Dynasty0.9M km²

The Chalukya dynasty was a Classical Indian dynasty that ruled large parts of southern and central India between the 6th and the 12th centuries.

Gurjara-Pratihara Dynasty0.9M km²

Gurjara-Pratihara Dynasty is mapped in the atlas for 732 CE – 1039 CE, with a peak mapped extent of about 919,187 km².

Western Wei0.9M km²

Wei, known in historiography as the Western Wei, was an imperial dynasty of China that followed the disintegration of the Northern Wei.

Northern Qi0.8M km²

Qi, known as the Northern Qi, Later Qi (後齊) or Gao Qi (高齊) in historiography, was a Chinese imperial dynasty and one of the Northern dynasties during the Northern and Southern dynasties era.

Seljuk Dynasty0.8M km²

The Seljuk dynasty, or Seljukids alternatively spelled as Saljuqids or Seljuk Turks, was an Oghuz Turkic, Sunni Muslim dynasty that culturally became Persianate and contributed to Turco-Persian culture.

Khazaria0.8M km²

The Khazars were a semi-nomadic Turkic people who established a major commercial empire in the late 6th century CE spanning the south of modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, and western Kazakhstan.

Later Liang Dynasty0.8M km²

Liang, known in historiography as the Later Liang or the Zhu Liang, was an imperial dynasty of China and the first of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

Nanzhao0.8M km²

Nanzhao, also spelled Nanchao, was a dynastic kingdom that flourished in what is now southwestern China and northern Southeast Asia during the 8th and 9th centuries, during the mid/late Tang dynasty.

Later Jin0.8M km²

Jin, known as the Later Jìn or the Shi Jin (石晉) in historiography, was an imperial dynasty of China and the third of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

Later Han0.8M km²

Later Han is mapped in the atlas for 947 CE – 959 CE, with a peak mapped extent of about 790,319 km².

Southern Tang0.8M km²

Southern Tang was a dynastic state of China that existed during Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

Western Chalukya Empire0.8M km²

The Western Chalukya Empire ruled most of the western Deccan, South India, between the 10th and 12th centuries.

Kingdom of Germany0.7M km²

In medieval history, the Kingdom of Germany was the original core of the Holy Roman Empire, which continued to be distinguished from other parts of the empire such as the Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Burgundy.

Abbasid Caliphate/Buyid Dynasty0.7M km²

The Golden Age of Islamic civilization, centering in Baghdad’s House of Wisdom, pioneering algebra, optics, medicine, and global trade across the Silk Road.

Kingdom of Sweden0.7M km²

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

East Franks0.7M km²

East Francia or the Kingdom of the East Franks was a successor state of the Carolingian Empire ruled by the Carolingian dynasty until 911.

Allegiance of Papal States to Byzantine Empire0.7M km²

The foreign relations of the Byzantine Empire were conducted by the emperor.

Qocho Kingdom0.7M km²

Qocho or Kara-Khoja, also known as Idiqut, was a Uyghur kingdom created in 843, with strong Chinese Buddhist and Tocharian influences.

Aquitaine0.6M km²

Aquitaine, archaic Guyenne or Guienne, is a historical region of southwestern France and a former administrative region.

Eastern Wei0.6M km²

Wei, known in historiography as the Eastern Wei, was an imperial dynasty of China that followed the disintegration of the Northern Wei dynasty.

Later Shu0.6M km²

Shu, referred to as Later Shu and Meng Shu in historiography, was a dynastic state of China and one of the Ten Kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

Former Shu0.6M km²

Great Shu, known in historiography as the Former Shu or occasionally Wang Shu (王蜀), was a dynastic state of China and one of the Ten Kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

Ostrogothic Kingdom0.6M km²

The Ostrogothic Kingdom, officially the Kingdom of Italy, was a barbarian kingdom established by the Germanic Ostrogoths that controlled Italy and neighbouring areas between 493 and 553.

Kannauj-Varman Dynasty0.6M km²

Kannauj is an ancient city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and a municipal board home to the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district.

Kingdom of England0.6M km²

Kingdom of England is mapped in the atlas for 936 CE – 1708 CE, with a peak mapped extent of about 569,446 km².

Caliphate of Córdoba0.6M km²

The Emirate of Córdoba, and from 929, the Caliphate of Córdoba, was an Arab Islamic state ruled by the Umayyad dynasty from 756 to 1031.

Srivijaya0.5M km²

Srivijaya, also spelled Sri Vijaya or Sriwijaya, was a Buddhist thalassocratic empire based on the island of Sumatra that influenced much of Southeast Asia.

Maukhari Dynasty0.5M km²

The Maukhari dynasty was a post-Gupta dynasty who controlled the vast plains of Ganga-Yamuna for almost a century from Kannauj.

Old Kingdom of Norway0.5M km²

Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country comprising the western and northernmost parts of the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe, the remote Arctic island Jan Mayen and the archipelago Svalbard.

Southern Wu0.5M km²

Southern Wu is mapped in the atlas for 911 CE – 959 CE, with a peak mapped extent of about 495,453 km².

Balhae0.5M km²

Parhae, also rendered as Bohai or Balhae, and called Jin early on, was a multiethnic kingdom established in 698 by Tae Choyŏng.

Rus'0.5M km²

Rus' is mapped in the atlas for 880 CE – 881 CE, with a peak mapped extent of about 485,847 km².

Western Xia0.5M km²

Western Xia is mapped in the atlas for 990 CE – 1226 CE, with a peak mapped extent of about 474,374 km².

Rustamid dynasty0.5M km²

The Rustamid dynasty was an Ibadi dynasty of Persian origin which ruled a state that was centered in present-day Algeria.

Oghuz Turks0.5M km²

Oghuz Khagan or Oğuz Khan is a legendary khan of the Turkic people and an eponymous ancestor of the Oghuz Turks.

Kingdom of Italy0.5M km²

Kingdom of Italy is mapped in the atlas for 587 CE – 1946 CE, with a peak mapped extent of about 455,534 km².

Emirate of Córdoba0.4M km²

The Emirate of Córdoba, and from 929, the Caliphate of Córdoba, was an Arab Islamic state ruled by the Umayyad dynasty from 756 to 1031.

Pagan Kingdom0.4M km²

The Pagan Kingdom, also called Bagan Empire (ပုဂံဧကရာဇ်နိုင်ငံတော်) or the First Burmese Empire, was the first Burmese kingdom to unify the regions that would later constitute modern-day Myanmar.

First Bulgarian Empire0.4M km²

The First Bulgarian Empire was a medieval state that existed in Southeastern and southeastern Central Europe between the 7th and 11th centuries AD.

Chenla0.4M km²

Chenla or Zhenla is the Chinese designation for the vassal of the kingdom of Funan preceding the Khmer Empire that existed from around the late 6th to the early 9th century in Indochina.

Scandinavian minor kingdoms0.4M km²

In Scandinavian prehistory, sometimes specifically Swedish prehistory, the Vendel Period, or Vendel Age, appears between the Migration Period and the Viking Age, specifically following the Volcanic winter of 536, subsiding around 550 AD.

Kingdom of Poland0.4M km²

The Kingdom of Poland was a state in Central Europe during the medieval and early modern periods from 1025 until 1795.

Yenisei Kyrgyz0.4M km²

The Yenisei Kyrgyz were an ancient Turkic people who dwelled along the upper Yenisei in the southern portion of the Minusinsk Hollow from the 3rd century BCE to the 13th century CE.

Allegiance of Duchy of Aquitaine to Kingdom of France0.4M km²

The Duchy of Aquitaine was a historical fiefdom located in the western, central, and southern areas of present-day France, south of the river Loire.

Magyars0.4M km²

Hungarians, also known as Magyars, are an ethnic group native to present day Hungary, and the Carpathian Basin who share a common culture, language, history and ancestry.

Southern Chu0.4M km²

Chu, known in historiography as Ma Chu (馬楚) or Southern Chu (南楚), was a dynastic state of China that existed from 907 to 951.

Qarlugs0.4M km²

The Mongol Empire conducted several campaigns in Central Asia after the unification of the Mongol and Turkic tribes on the Mongolian Plateau in 1206.

Middle Franks0.4M km²

Lotharingia was a historical region and an early medieval polity that existed during the late Carolingian and early Ottonian era, from the middle of the 9th to the middle of the 10th century.

Kingdom of Dali0.4M km²

The Dali Kingdom, also known as the Dali State, was a Bai dynastic state situated in modern Yunnan province, China, from 937 to 1253.

Turk Shahis0.3M km²

Turk Shahis is mapped in the atlas for 561 CE – 874 CE, with a peak mapped extent of about 339,517 km².

Southern Han0.3M km²

Southern Han is mapped in the atlas for 911 CE – 979 CE, with a peak mapped extent of about 322,737 km².

Kingdom of Khotan0.3M km²

The Kingdom of Khotan, also called the Kingdom of Yutian, was an ancient Buddhist Saka kingdom located on the branch of the Silk Road that ran along the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert in the Tarim Basin.

Old Great Bulgaria0.3M km²

Old Great Bulgaria, also often known by the Latin names Magna Bulgaria and Patria Onoguria, was a 7th-century Turkic nomadic empire formed by the Onogur-Bulgars on the western Pontic–Caspian steppe.

Great Moravia0.3M km²

Great Moravia is mapped in the atlas for 814 CE – 910 CE, with a peak mapped extent of about 282,459 km².

Principality of Hungary0.3M km²

The Grand Principality of Hungary or Duchy of Hungary was the earliest documented Hungarian state in the Carpathian Basin, established around 895, following the 9th century Magyar invasion of the Carpathian Basin.

Ghassanids0.3M km²

The Ghassanids, also known as the Jafnids, were an Arab Christian kingdom.

Kingdom of Castile0.3M km²

The Kingdom of Castile was a polity in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages.

Aghlabid Dynasty0.3M km²

The Aghlabid dynasty was an Arab dynasty that ruled Ifriqiya from 800 to 909, nominally as vassals of the Abbasid Caliphate.

Fihrids0.3M km²

The Fihrids, also known as Banū Fihr, were an Arab family and clan, prominent in Ifriqiya and Al-Andalus in the 8th century.

Kharijites0.3M km²

The Kharijites were an Islamic sect which emerged during the First Fitna (656–661).

Heian Japan0.2M km²

The Heian period is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185.

Kingdom of Lower Burgundy0.2M km²

Lower Burgundy was a historical region in the early medieval Burgundy, and a distinctive realm known as the Kingdom of Lower Burgundy, that existed from 879 to 933, when it was incorporated into the reunited Kingdom of Burgundy.

Chauhan Dynasty0.2M km²

The Chauhan dynasty are a dynasty associated with various ruling Rajput families in the present-day Indian state of Rajasthan from seventh century onwards.

Water Chenla0.2M km²

Chenla or Zhenla is the Chinese designation for the vassal of the kingdom of Funan preceding the Khmer Empire that existed from around the late 6th to the early 9th century in Indochina.

Chaulukya Dynasty0.2M km²

The Chaulukya dynasty, also Solanki dynasty, was a dynasty that ruled parts of what are now Gujarat and Rajasthan in north-western India, between c.

Ganzhou Kingdom0.2M km²

The Ganzhou Uyghur Kingdom, also referred to as the Hexi Uyghurs, was a Turkic dynastic state ruled by the Uyghur Yaglakar clan.

Asuka Japan0.2M km²

The Asuka period was a period in the history of Japan lasting from 538 to 710, although its beginning could be said to overlap with the preceding Kofun period.

Nara Japan0.2M km²

The Nara period of the history of Japan covers the years from 710 to 794.

Sind-Habbari Dynasty0.2M km²

The Habbari Dynasty were an Arab dynasty that ruled much of Sindh, as a semi-independent emirate from 854 to 1024.

Paramara Dynasty0.2M km²

The Paramara dynasty was an Indian dynasty that ruled Malwa and surrounding areas in west-central India between 948 and 1305.

Ziyadid dynasty0.2M km²

The Ziyadid dynasty was a Muslim dynasty that ruled western Yemen from 819 until 1018 from the capital city of Zabid.

Upper Burgundy and Italy0.2M km²

Upper Burgundy was a historical region in the early medieval Burgundy, and a distinctive realm known as the Kingdom of Upper Burgundy, that existed from 888 to 933, when it was incorporated into the reunited Kingdom of Burgundy, that lasted until 1032.

Samo's Empire0.2M km²

Samo was the founder and sole ruler of the first recorded unified tribal polity of Slavs, later known as Samo's realm, ruling from 623 until his death in 658.

Lower Burgundy0.2M km²

Lower Burgundy was a historical region in the early medieval Burgundy, and a distinctive realm known as the Kingdom of Lower Burgundy, that existed from 879 to 933, when it was incorporated into the reunited Kingdom of Burgundy.

Karkota Dynasty0.2M km²

The Karkota dynasty ruled over the Kashmir valley and some northern parts of the Indian subcontinent during 7th and 8th centuries.

Goryeo0.2M km²

Goryeo was a Korean state founded in 918, during a time of national division called the Later Three Kingdoms period, that unified and ruled the Korean Peninsula until the establishment of Joseon in 1392.

Ghana Empire0.2M km²

The Ghana Empire, also known as simply Ghana, Ghanata, or Wagadu, was an ancient western-Sahelian empire based in the modern-day southeast of Mauritania and western Mali.

Kashmir0.2M km²

Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent.

Idrisids0.2M km²

The Idrisid dynasty or Idrisids were an Arab Muslim dynasty from 788 to 974, ruling most of present-day Morocco and parts of present-day western Algeria.

Kingdom of León0.2M km²

The Kingdom of León was a medieval state situated in the northwest region of the Iberian Peninsula.

Later Mayan City-States0.2M km²

The Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization that existed from antiquity to the early modern period.

Land Chenla0.2M km²

Chenla or Zhenla is the Chinese designation for the vassal of the kingdom of Funan preceding the Khmer Empire that existed from around the late 6th to the early 9th century in Indochina.

Utpala Dynasty0.2M km²

The Utpala Dynasty was a medieval Kashmiri Hindu dynasty that ruled over Kashmir from the 9th to 10th centuries.

County of Ribagorza0.2M km²

The County of Ribagorza or Ribagorça was a medieval county on the southern side of the Pyrenees, including the northeast of modern Aragón and part of the northwest of modern Catalonia, both in Spain.

Kingdom of Denmark0.2M km²

The Danish Realm, officially the Kingdom of Denmark, often known as Denmark, is a sovereign state consisting of a collection of constituent territories united by the Constitutional Act, which applies to the entire territory.

Ngô Dynasty0.2M km²

The Ngô dynasty, officially Tĩnh Hải quân, was a semi-independent Vietnamese dynasty from 939 to 968.

Kingdom of the Gepids0.2M km²

The Gepids were an East Germanic tribe who lived in the area of modern Romania, Hungary, and Serbia, roughly between the Tisza, Sava, and Carpathian Mountains.

Unified Silla0.1M km²

Unified Silla, Late Silla, or Greater Silla is the name often applied to the historical period of the Korean kingdom of Silla after its conquest of Goguryeo in 668 AD, which marked the end of the Three Kingdoms period.

Lavo Kingdom0.1M km²

The Lavo Kingdom was a mandala in the lower Chao Phraya basin from the 7th century until 1388.

Haripuñjaya0.1M km²

Haripuñjaya, also spelled Haribhuñjaya, was an ancient Mon kingdom in what is now Northern Thailand, existing from the 7th or 8th to 13th century CE.

Duchy of Aquitaine0.1M km²

The Duchy of Aquitaine was a historical fiefdom located in the western, central, and southern areas of present-day France, south of the river Loire.

Former Jin0.1M km²

Jin, also known as Hedong (河東) and Former Jin (前晉) in Chinese historiography, was a dynastic state of China and the predecessor of the Later Tang dynasty.

Viking settlements0.1M km²

Vikings were a seafaring people originally from Scandinavia, who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.

Kingdom of Neustria0.1M km²

Neustria was the western part of the Kingdom of the Franks during the Early Middle Ages, in contrast to the eastern Frankish sub-kingdom, Austrasia.

Kingdom of Asturias0.1M km²

The Kingdom of Asturias was a medieval monarchy in the Iberian Peninsula founded by the nobleman Pelagius.

Duchy of Bohemia0.1M km²

The Duchy of Bohemia, also later referred to in English as the Czech Duchy, was a monarchy and a principality of the Holy Roman Empire in Central Europe during the Early and High Middle Ages.

Wuyue0.1M km²

Wuyue was a dynastic state of China and one of the Ten Kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of Chinese history.

Bavarians0.1M km²

Bavarians are an ethnographic group of Germans native to Bavaria, a state in Germany.

Min0.1M km²

Min is mapped in the atlas for 911 CE – 946 CE, with a peak mapped extent of about 121,944 km².

Sunda Kingdom0.1M km²

The Sunda Kingdom was a Sundanese Hindu kingdom located in the western portion of the island of Java from 932 AD to around 1579, covering the area of present-day Banten, Jakarta, West Java, Lampung, and the western part of Central Java.

Duchy of Spoleto0.1M km²

The Duchy of Spoleto was a duchy in central Italy that existed from the late 6th century until the early 13th century.

Kingdom of Arles0.1M km²

The Kingdom of Burgundy, also known as the Kingdom of Arles, was a realm established in 933 by the unification of Lower Burgundy with the Upper Burgundy.

Shirvan0.1M km²

Shirvan is a historical Iranian region in the eastern Caucasus, as known both during the pre-Islamic Sasanian Era and the early Islamic period.

Icelandic Commonwealth0.1M km²

The Icelandic Commonwealth, also known as the Icelandic Free State, was the political unit existing in Iceland between the establishment of the Althing in 930 and the pledge of fealty to the Norwegian king with the Old Covenant in 1262.

Bagratid Armenia0.1M km²

Bagratid Armenia was an independent Armenian state established by Ashot I of the Bagratuni dynasty in the early 880s following nearly two centuries of foreign domination of Greater Armenia under Arab Umayyad and Abbasid rule.

Kingdom of Wessex0.1M km²

The Kingdom of the West Saxons, also known as the Kingdom of Wessex, was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from around 519 until around 927.

Kingdom of Mercia0.1M km²

Mercia was an early medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom, one of the seven kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon period.

Qi Kingdom0.1M km²

Qi was a principality during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in Chinese history.

Kingdom of Croatia0.1M km²

The Kingdom of Croatia, and since 1060 known as Kingdom of Croatia and Dalmatia, was a medieval kingdom in Southern Europe comprising most of what is today Croatia, as well as most of the modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Early Lý Dynasty0.1M km²

The Early Lý dynasty, also known in historiography as the Former Lý dynasty or Anterior Lý dynasty, officially Vạn Xuân or Nam Việt, was a dynasty of Vietnam that existed from AD 544 to 602.

Gauda Kingdom0.1M km²

The Gauḍa kingdom was a kingdom during the Classical era in the Indian subcontinent, which originated in the Gauda region of Bengal in 4th century CE or possibly earlier.

Khadga Dynasty0.1M km²

Khadga dynasty, was a Buddhist dynasty which ruled the areas of Vanga and Samatata in ancient Bengal from 625 CE to 716 CE.

Kingdom of Galicia0.1M km²

The Kingdom of Galicia was a political entity located in southwestern Europe, which, at its territorial zenith, occupied the entire northwest of the Iberian Peninsula.

Georgia0.1M km²

Georgia is mapped in the atlas for 567 CE – 2024 CE, with a peak mapped extent of about 86,640 km².

Kingdom of Northumbria0.1M km²

Northumbria was an early medieval English kingdom, existing between 654 and 1066 AD, at its height spanning modern-day Northern England and Southern Scotland.

Kingdom of Alba0.1M km²

The Kingdom of Alba was the Kingdom of Scotland between the deaths of Donald II in 900 and of Alexander III in 1286.

Taebong0.1M km²

T'aebong was a state established by Kung Ye on the Korean Peninsula in 901 during the Later Three Kingdoms period.

Gao Kaidao0.1M km²

Gao Kaidao, at one point known as Li Kaidao (李開道), was an agrarian rebel leader who rose against the Sui dynasty at the end of Emperor Yang's reign.

Chandela Kingdom0.1M km²

The Chandelas of Jejakabhukti was an Indian dynasty in Central India.

Pandya Dynasty0.1M km²

The Pandya dynasty, also referred to as the Pandyas of Madurai, was an ancient Tamil dynasty of South India, and among the four great kingdoms of Tamilakam, the other three being the Pallavas, the Cholas and the Cheras.

Chandra Dynasty0.1M km²

The Chandra dynasty was a Buddhist dynasty, originating from the South-east Bengal region of Indian subcontinent, which ruled the Samatata area of Bengal, as well as parts of Arakan Later it was a neighbour to the Pala Empire to the north.

Balasagan0.1M km²

Balāsagān, also known as Bazgan, was a region located in the area of the Kura and Aras rivers, adjacent to the Caspian Sea.

Jingnan0.1M km²

Jingnan, also known as Nanping and Northern Chu (北楚) in historiography, was a dynastic state of China and one of the Ten Kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

Later Western Liang0.1M km²

Liang, known in historiography as the Western Liang or the Later Liang, was an imperial dynasty of China during the Northern and Southern dynasties era of Chinese history.

Republic of Venice0.1M km²

The Republic of Venice, officially the Most Serene Republic of Venice and traditionally known as La Serenissima, was a maritime republic with its capital in Venice, on the northeastern coast of Italy.

Puebloans - Chaco Regional System0.1M km²

Puebloans - Chaco Regional System is mapped in the atlas for 850 CE – 1151 CE, with a peak mapped extent of about 64,974 km².

Qarmatians0.1M km²

The Qarmatians were an Isma'ili Shia militant movement led by an Arabized dynasty of Persian descent.

Dabuyid Dynasty0.1M km²

The Dabuyid dynasty, or Gaubarid dynasty, was a Zoroastrian Iranian dynasty that started in the first half of the 7th century as an independent group of rulers who ruled over Tabaristan and parts of western Khorasan.

Frisia Kingdom0.1M km²

Frisia is a cross-border cultural region in Northwestern Europe.

Yan Kingdom0.1M km²

Yan, sometimes known in historiography as Jie Yan (桀燕), was a short-lived monarchical state in the vicinity of present-day Beijing at the beginning of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

Principality of Serbia0.1M km²

The Principality of Serbia was an autonomous, later sovereign state in the Balkans that came into existence as a result of the Serbian Revolution.

Dál Riata0.1M km²

Dál Riata or Dál Riada was a Gaelic kingdom that encompassed the western seaboard of Scotland and northeastern Ireland, on each side of the North Channel.

Mataram Kingdom0.1M km²

The Mataram kingdom, also known as the Medang kingdom, was a Javanese Hindu-Buddhist kingdom that flourished between the 8th and 11th centuries AD.

Sajid Dynasty0.1M km²

The Sajid dynasty was a Muslim dynasty, of Iranian origin, that ruled from 889/890 until 929.

Duchy of Gascony0.1M km²

The Duchy of Gascony or Duchy of Vasconia was a duchy located in present-day southwestern France and northeastern Spain, an area encompassing the modern region of Gascony.

Danelaw0.1M km²

The Danelaw was the part of England between the late ninth century and the Norman Conquest under Anglo-Saxon rule in which Danish laws applied.

County of Toulouse0.1M km²

The County of Toulouse was a territory in present-day southern France consisting of the city of Toulouse and its environs, ruled by the Count of Toulouse from the late 9th century until the late 13th century.

Kingdom of Brittany0.0M km²

The Kingdom of Brittany was a short-lived vassal-state of the Frankish Empire that emerged during the Norse invasions.

Duchy of Benevento0.0M km²

The Duchy of Benevento was the southernmost Lombard duchy in the Italian Peninsula that was centered in Benevento, a city in Southern Italy.

Zaydi Alid dynasties0.0M km²

Alid dynasties of northern Iran or Alavids.

Upper Burgundy0.0M km²

Upper Burgundy was a historical region in the early medieval Burgundy, and a distinctive realm known as the Kingdom of Upper Burgundy, that existed from 888 to 933, when it was incorporated into the reunited Kingdom of Burgundy, that lasted until 1032.

Carantania0.0M km²

Carantania, also known as Carentania, was a Slavic principality that emerged in the second half of the 7th century, in the territory of present-day southern Austria and north-eastern Slovenia.

Volga Bulgaria0.0M km²

Volga Bulgaria or Volga–Kama Bulgaria was a historical Bulgar state that existed between the 9th and 13th centuries around the confluence of the Volga and Kama River, in what is now European Russia.

Kingdom of Vaspurakan0.0M km²

The Kingdom of Vaspurakan was a medieval Armenian kingdom centered on Lake Van, located in what is now eastern Turkey and northwestern Iran.

Papal States0.0M km²

The Papal States, officially the State of the Church, were a conglomeration of territories on the Italian Peninsula under the direct sovereign rule of the pope from 756 to 1870.

Ziyarid dynasty0.0M km²

The Ziyarid dynasty was an Iranian dynasty of Gilaki origin that ruled Tabaristan from 931 to 1090 during the Iranian Intermezzo period.

Duchy of Thuringia0.0M km²

The Duchy of Thuringia, later known as the Landgraviate of Thuringia, was a polity in medieval Thuringia, initially a duchy, and then a landgraviate.

Duchy of Normandy0.0M km²

The Duchy of Normandy grew out of the 911 Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between King Charles III of West Francia and the Viking leader Rollo.

County of Blôis0.0M km²

The County of Blois was a feudal principality centred on Blois, south of Paris, France.

Barghawata Conference0.0M km²

Casablanca is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre.

Duchy of Brittany0.0M km²

The Duchy of Brittany was a medieval feudal state that existed between approximately 939 and 1547.

County of Flanders0.0M km²

The County of Flanders was one of the most powerful political entities in the medieval Low Countries, located on the North Sea coast of modern-day Belgium and north-eastern France.

Galuh Kingdom0.0M km²

The Galuh Kingdom was a medieval Sundanese kingdom located in the eastern part of Tatar Sunda, present-day Indonesia.

Principality of Iberia0.0M km²

The Principality of Iberia was an early medieval aristocratic regime in a core Georgian region of Kartli, called Iberia by classical authors.

County of Rouergue0.0M km²

Rouergue is a former province of France, corresponding roughly with the modern department of Aveyron.

County of Champagne0.0M km²

The County of Champagne was a medieval territory and feudal principality in the Kingdom of France.

County of Anjou0.0M km²

The County of Anjou was a French county that was the predecessor to the Duchy of Anjou.

Principality of Nitra0.0M km²

The Principality of Nitra also known as the Duchy of Nitra, was a West Slavic polity encompassing a group of settlements that developed in the 9th century around Nitra, in present-day Slovakia.

Nitra0.0M km²

Nitra is a city in southwestern Slovakia, situated at the foot of the Zobor Mountain in the Nitra River Valley about 90 km (56 mi) northeast of the country's capital, Bratislava.

Northern Han0.0M km²

The Northern Han was a dynastic state of China and one of the Ten Kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

Giudicato of Arborea0.0M km²

The Judicate of Arborea or the Kingdom of Arborea was one of the four independent judicates into which the island of Sardinia was divided in the Middle Ages.

Jaemtland0.0M km²

Jämtland is a historical province in the centre of Sweden in northern Europe.

Hubaekje0.0M km²

Later Paekche or Later Baekje was one of the Later Three Kingdoms of Korea, along with Taebong and Silla.

Kingdom of the Iberians0.0M km²

Kingdom of the Iberians is mapped in the atlas for 814 CE – 999 CE, with a peak mapped extent of about 24,615 km².

Breton Kingdoms0.0M km²

The Bretons are a Celtic ethnic group native to Brittany, north-western France.

Kingdom of Lazica0.0M km²

The Kingdom of Lazica, sometimes called Lazian Empire, was a state in the territory of west Georgia in the Roman period, from about the 1st century BC.

Kingdom of Gwynedd0.0M km²

The Kingdom of Gwynedd was a Welsh kingdom which first appeared at the turn of the sixth century.

Emirate of Sicily0.0M km²

The island of Sicily was under Islamic rule from the late ninth to the late eleventh centuries.

Magna Frisia0.0M km²

The Frisian Kingdom is a modern name for the post-Roman Frisian realm in Western Europe in the period when it was at its largest (650–734).

Duchy of Croatia0.0M km²

The Duchy of Croatia was a medieval state that was established by White Croats who migrated into the area of the former Roman province of Dalmatia c.

County of Vermandois0.0M km²

Vermandois was a French county that appeared in the Merovingian period.

County of Barcelona0.0M km²

Girona, also known in Spanish as Gerona, is the capital city of the Province of Girona in the autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the Ter, Onyar, Galligants, and Güell rivers.

Classic Veracruz Culture0.0M km²

Classic Veracruz culture refers to a cultural area in the north and central areas of the present-day Mexican state of Veracruz, a culture that existed from roughly 100 to 1000 CE, or during the Classic era.

Kingdom of Deira0.0M km²

Deira was an area of Post-Roman Britain, and a later Anglian kingdom.

Kingdom of Seisyllwg0.0M km²

Seisyllwg was a petty kingdom of medieval Wales.

Principality of Salerno0.0M km²

The Principality of Salerno was a medieval Southern European state, formed in 851 out of the Principality of Benevento after a decade-long civil war.

Duchy of Tuscia0.0M km²

The Duchy of Tuscia, initially known as the Duchy of Lucca, was a Lombard duchy in Central Italy, which included much of today's Tuscany.

Kingdom of Pamplona0.0M km²

The Kingdom of Navarre, originally the Kingdom of Pamplona, was a historical Iberian polity which occupied lands on both sides of the western Pyrenees, with its northernmost areas originally reaching the Atlantic Ocean, between present-day Spain and France.

Obotrites0.0M km²

The Obotrites or Obodrites, also spelled Abodrites, were a confederation of medieval West Slavic tribes within the territory of modern Mecklenburg and Holstein in northern Germany.

County of Urgell0.0M km²

The County of Urgell is one of the historical Catalan counties, bordering on the counties of Pallars and Cerdanya.

Zagwe dynasty0.0M km²

The Zagwe dynasty was a medieval Agaw monarchy that ruled the northern parts of Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Dumnonia0.0M km²

Dumnonia, a Latinised name, was a Brythonic kingdom that existed in Sub-Roman Britain between the 6th century CE and the 7th century CE in the more westerly parts of present-day South West England.

County of Maine0.0M km²

Maine is one of the traditional provinces of France.

Frisia0.0M km²

Frisia is a cross-border cultural region in Northwestern Europe.

Kingdom of East Anglia0.0M km²

The Kingdom of the East Angles, informally known as the Kingdom of East Anglia or East Anglia, was an early medieval English kingdom of the Angles during the Anglo-Saxon period, existing from the 6th century to 918 CE.

Kingdom of Rheged0.0M km²

Rheged was one of the kingdoms of the Hen Ogledd, the Brittonic-speaking region of what is now Northern England and southern Scotland, during the post-Roman era and Early Middle Ages.

Strathclyde0.0M km²

Strathclyde was one of nine former local government regions of Scotland created in 1975 by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and abolished in 1996 by the Local Government etc.

Cyprus Condominium0.0M km²

Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, located off the coast of the Levant mainland in West Asia.

Kingdom of Bernicia0.0M km²

Bernicia was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom established by Anglian settlers of the 6th century in what is now southeastern Scotland and North East England.

Giudicato of Cagliari0.0M km²

The Judicate of Cagliari was one of the four kingdoms or judicates into which Sardinia was divided during the Middle Ages.

County of Berga0.0M km²

Berga is the capital of the comarca (county) of Berguedà, in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Frisians0.0M km²

The Frisians are an ethnic group indigenous to Northwestern Europe on the coastal regions of northern Netherlands, north-western Germany and southwestern Denmark.

Giudicato of Logudoro0.0M km²

The Judicate of Logudoro or Torres was one of the four kingdoms or iudicati into which Sardinia was divided during the Middle Ages.

Early Balinese Kingdoms0.0M km²

The Bali Kingdom was a series of Hindu-Buddhist kingdoms that once ruled some parts of the volcanic island of Bali, in Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia.

Emirate of Nekor0.0M km²

The Emirate of Nekor or Salihid Emirate was an emirate centered in the Rif area of present-day Morocco.

County of Besalú0.0M km²

The County of Besalú was one of the landlocked medieval Catalan counties near the Mediterranean coastline.

Kingdom of Powys0.0M km²

The Kingdom of Powys was a Welsh successor state, petty kingdom and principality that emerged during the Middle Ages following the end of Roman rule in Britain.

Toltec0.0M km²

The Toltec culture was a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican culture that ruled a state centered in Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico, during the Epiclassic and the early Post-Classic period of Mesoamerican chronology, reaching prominence from 950 to 1150 AD.

Emirate of Crete0.0M km²

The Emirate of Crete was an Arab Islamic state that existed on the Mediterranean island of Crete from the late 820s to the reconquest of the island by the Byzantine Empire in 961.

Kingdom of Brycheiniog0.0M km²

Brycheiniog was an independent kingdom in South Wales in the Early Middle Ages.

County of Pallars0.0M km²

County of Pallars is mapped in the atlas for 875 CE – 1014 CE, with a peak mapped extent of about 4,850 km².

Hwicce0.0M km²

Hwicce was a kingdom in Anglo-Saxon England.

County of Rosellón0.0M km²

Roussillon was a historical province of France that largely corresponded to the County of Roussillon and part of the County of Cerdagne of the former Principality of Catalonia.

Giudicato of Gallura0.0M km²

The Judicate of Gallura was one of four Sardinian judicates in the Middle Ages.

Cornwall0.0M km²

Cornwall is a ceremonial county in South West England.

County of Vexin0.0M km²

Vexin is a historical county of northern France.

Kingdom of Essex0.0M km²

The Kingdom of the East Saxons, referred to as the Kingdom of Essex, was an early medieval English kingdom, constituting one of the seven traditional kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon period.

Kingdom of Lindsey0.0M km²

The Lindsey was a lesser Anglo-Saxon kingdom in what is now north Lincolnshire in the sixth and seventh centuries, possibly extending into the early eighth century.

County of Aragon0.0M km²

The County of Aragon or County of Jaca was a small Frankish marcher county in the central Pyrenean valley of the Aragon river, comprising Ansó, Echo, and Canfranc and centered on the small town of Jaca, an area now part of Spain.

Kingdom of Sobrarbe0.0M km²

The Kingdom of Sobrarbe was the legendary predecessor to the Kingdom of Aragon and the modern region of Sobrarbe.

Kingdom of Morgannwg0.0M km²

Morgannwg was a kingdom in south-east Wales.

Chimor0.0M km²

Chimor was the political grouping of the Chimú culture.

County of Osona0.0M km²

The County of Osona, also Ausona, was one of the Catalan counties of the Marca Hispanica in the Early and High Middle Ages.

Kingdom of Dunoting0.0M km²

Dunoding was an early sub-kingdom within the Kingdom of Gwynedd in north-west Wales which existed between the 5th and 10th centuries.

Kingdom of Gwent0.0M km²

Gwent was a medieval Welsh kingdom, lying between the Rivers Wye and Usk.

Principality of Capua0.0M km²

The Principality of Capua was a state centred on Capua in Southern Italy which lasted for about three centuries.

Duchy of Naples0.0M km²

Duchy of Naples is mapped in the atlas for 763 CE – 1138 CE, with a peak mapped extent of about 1,059 km².

Wihtgar0.0M km²

Wihtwara were the Early Medieval inhabitants of the Isle of Wight, a 147-square-mile (380 km2) island off the south coast of England.

Republic of Amalfi0.0M km²

The Duchy of Amalfi or the Republic of Amalfi was a de facto independent state centered on the Southern European city of Amalfi during the 10th and 11th centuries.