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Europe · High and late Middle Ages

Duchy of Sandomierz

drawn on the map 1139–1168, 1177–1304

One of the duchies created in 1138, in Lesser Poland on the Vistula. Frequently united with Kraków. It was ravaged by the Mongol invasions of 1241 and 1259/1287 and eventually reintegrated into the Crown.

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Shown on the map
1139–1168, 1177–1304 (2 periods)
Peak area
147k km²
Region
Europe

Overview

One of the duchies created in 1138, in Lesser Poland on the Vistula. Frequently united with Kraków. It was ravaged by the Mongol invasions of 1241 and 1259/1287 and eventually reintegrated into the Crown.

Common questions

What was the Duchy of Sandomierz?
One of the duchies created in 1138, in Lesser Poland on the Vistula. Frequently united with Kraków. It was ravaged by the Mongol invasions of 1241 and 1259/1287 and eventually reintegrated into the Crown.
When is the Duchy of Sandomierz shown on the map?
The border data draws the Duchy of Sandomierz 1139–1168, 1177–1304, in 2 separate periods. 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 Sandomierz?
At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Duchy of Sandomierz covered about 147,000 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:

This entry was last updated .

This entry was researched and drafted with AI from the sources above, and has not been reviewed by a historian. How entries are made

Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.

Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).

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