Europe · High and late Middle Ages
Duchy of Bytom
drawn on the map 1285–1304
An Upper Silesian duchy under a cadet Opole line; one of the first to accept Bohemian suzerainty (1289). It later passed by inheritance among Silesian and Bohemian lines.
- Shown on the map
- 1285–1304
- Peak area
- 2k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
An Upper Silesian duchy under a cadet Opole line; one of the first to accept Bohemian suzerainty (1289). It later passed by inheritance among Silesian and Bohemian lines.
Common questions
- What was the Duchy of Bytom?
- An Upper Silesian duchy under a cadet Opole line; one of the first to accept Bohemian suzerainty (1289). It later passed by inheritance among Silesian and Bohemian lines.
- When is the Duchy of Bytom shown on the map?
- The border data draws the Duchy of Bytom 1285–1304. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
- How large was the Duchy of Bytom?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Duchy of Bytom covered about 2,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each territory as the primary basis, with Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia, academic works (John Fine on the Balkans, Halperin and Martin on Muscovy, Rady and Veszprémy on Hungary) and, for a few entries, the medieval Livonian Chronicle of Henry itself. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Duchy of Bytom en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Bytom
This entry was last updated .
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Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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