Europe · The early medieval west
Upper Burgundy and Italy
drawn on the map AD 922–925
Rudolph II was briefly King of Italy (922–926). In 933 he acquired the Kingdom of Lower Burgundy from Hugh of Arles in exchange for renouncing his Italian claims, uniting the two Burgundies into a single Kingdom of Burgundy — the polity later known as the Kingdom of Arles.
- Shown on the map
- AD 922–925
- Peak area
- 214k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
Rudolph II was briefly King of Italy (922–926). In 933 he acquired the Kingdom of Lower Burgundy from Hugh of Arles in exchange for renouncing his Italian claims, uniting the two Burgundies into a single Kingdom of Burgundy — the polity later known as the Kingdom of Arles.
Common questions
- What was Upper Burgundy and Italy?
- Rudolph II was briefly King of Italy (922–926). In 933 he acquired the Kingdom of Lower Burgundy from Hugh of Arles in exchange for renouncing his Italian claims, uniting the two Burgundies into a single Kingdom of Burgundy — the polity later known as the Kingdom of Arles.
- When is Upper Burgundy and Italy shown on the map?
- The border data draws Upper Burgundy and Italy AD 922–925. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
- How large was Upper Burgundy and Italy?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, Upper Burgundy and Italy covered about 214,000 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, cross-checked against Encyclopædia Britannica and specialist snippets, and flags entries built on unreliable foundations — the 911 treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte known only from Dudo of Saint-Quentin, and Arnaud Amalric's alleged order at Béziers attested only decades after the fact. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Upper Burgundy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Burgundy
This entry was last updated .
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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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