World map in AD 866 — territory by country

Frame AD 866 — world borders from AD 866 to AD 869. 95 countries have territory in this frame, and the largest is Abbasid Caliphate (≈ 7.43 million km²).

Countries with territory in this frame (95, largest first)

Rank	Country	Area
1	Abbasid Caliphate	≈ 7.43 million km²
2	Tang dynasty	≈ 3.12 million km²
3	Tibetans	≈ 1.87 million km²
4	Kimak–Kipchak confederation	≈ 1.43 million km²
5	Kara-Khanid Khanate	≈ 808 thousand km²
6	Rashtrakuta Empire	≈ 785 thousand km²
7	Khazars	≈ 749 thousand km²
8	Qocho	≈ 653 thousand km²
9	Pratihara dynasty	≈ 644 thousand km²
10	West Francia	≈ 641 thousand km²
11	Byzantine Empire	≈ 626 thousand km²
12	Srivijaya	≈ 538 thousand km²
13	Balhae	≈ 483 thousand km²
14	Rustamid dynasty	≈ 470 thousand km²
15	Khmer Empire	≈ 450 thousand km²
16	Oghuz Khagan	≈ 448 thousand km²
17	East Francia	≈ 435 thousand km²
18	First Bulgarian Empire	≈ 425 thousand km²
19	Yenisei Kyrgyz	≈ 424 thousand km²
20	Umayyad state of Córdoba	≈ 412 thousand km²
21	Hungarians	≈ 399 thousand km²
22	Pala Empire	≈ 335 thousand km²
23	Nanzhao	≈ 322 thousand km²
24	Aghlabid dynasty	≈ 247 thousand km²
25	Heian period	≈ 244 thousand km²
26	Vendel Period	≈ 236 thousand km²
27	Ganzhou Uyghur Kingdom	≈ 233 thousand km²
28	Habbari Emirate	≈ 230 thousand km²
29	Turk Shahis	≈ 224 thousand km²
30	Norway	≈ 216 thousand km²
31	Ziyadid dynasty	≈ 215 thousand km²
32	Makuria	≈ 213 thousand km²
33	Ghana Empire	≈ 204 thousand km²
34	Idrisid dynasty	≈ 194 thousand km²
35	Maya civilization	≈ 177 thousand km²
36	Lower Burgundy	≈ 158 thousand km²
37	Great Moravia	≈ 157 thousand km²
38	Unified Silla	≈ 150 thousand km²
39	Kashmir	≈ 150 thousand km²
40	Haripuñjaya	≈ 143 thousand km²
41	Saffarid dynasty	≈ 129 thousand km²
42	Lavo Kingdom	≈ 126 thousand km²
43	Alodia	≈ 124 thousand km²
44	Kingdom of Asturias	≈ 123 thousand km²
45	Kingdom of Aksum	≈ 97 thousand km²
46	Pyu city-states	≈ 95 thousand km²
47	Kamarupa	≈ 93 thousand km²
48	Vikings	≈ 83 thousand km²
49	Champa	≈ 78 thousand km²
50	Pandya dynasty	≈ 78 thousand km²
51	Anuradhapura	≈ 74 thousand km²
52	Sunda Kingdom	≈ 62 thousand km²
53	Mataram kingdom	≈ 60 thousand km²
54	Alid dynasties of northern Iran	≈ 45 thousand km²
55	Mercia	≈ 45 thousand km²
56	Volga Bulgaria	≈ 44 thousand km²
57	Northumbria	≈ 42 thousand km²
58	Dál Riata	≈ 42 thousand km²
59	Kingdom of Brittany	≈ 42 thousand km²
60	Shirvan	≈ 42 thousand km²
61	Principality of Serbia	≈ 38 thousand km²
62	Casablanca	≈ 36 thousand km²
63	Wessex	≈ 36 thousand km²
64	Pagan Kingdom	≈ 27 thousand km²
65	Georgia	≈ 24 thousand km²
66	Kingdom of the Iberians	≈ 24 thousand km²
67	Duchy of Benevento	≈ 24 thousand km²
68	Ancestral Puebloans	≈ 21 thousand km²
69	Duchy of Croatia	≈ 21 thousand km²
70	Muslim Sicily	≈ 19 thousand km²
71	Classic Veracruz culture	≈ 19 thousand km²
72	Principality of Salerno	≈ 18 thousand km²
73	Papal States	≈ 16 thousand km²
74	County of Ribagorza	≈ 15 thousand km²
75	Obotrites	≈ 15 thousand km²
76	Celtic Britons	≈ 13 thousand km²
77	Cyprus	≈ 11 thousand km²
78	Kingdom of Gwynedd	≈ 11 thousand km²
79	Kingdom of East Anglia	≈ 10 thousand km²
80	Judicate of Cagliari	≈ 10 thousand km²
81	Strathclyde	≈ 9,448 km²
82	Zapotec civilization	≈ 8,550 km²
83	Judicate of Logudoro	≈ 8,247 km²
84	Emirate of Nekor	≈ 7,039 km²
85	Emirate of Crete	≈ 5,499 km²
86	Judicate of Gallura	≈ 4,598 km²
87	Cornwall	≈ 4,538 km²
88	Judicate of Arborea	≈ 3,878 km²
89	County of Aragon	≈ 3,490 km²
90	Chola Empire	≈ 3,058 km²
91	Republic of Venice	≈ 2,571 km²
92	Brycheiniog	≈ 1,962 km²
93	Kingdom of Morgannwg	≈ 1,510 km²
94	Kingdom of Gwent	≈ 1,355 km²
95	Duchy of Naples	≈ 1,059 km²

Map of this frame (only countries over 400,000 km², simplified)

New countries in this frame (9)

Norway · Ziyadid dynasty · County of Ribagorza · Shirvan · Alid dynasties of northern Iran · Judicate of Arborea · Judicate of Cagliari · Judicate of Logudoro · Judicate of Gallura

Countries that disappeared in this frame (3)

Duchy of Spoleto · Kingdom of Navarre · Principality of Capua

The world in AD 866

33 events from the sources that fall in this frame, grouped by region.

China (7)

AD 866 — Zhang Yichao recovers Xizhou and Beiting, which the Huihu chief Gu Jun had taken. (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 資治通鑑卷250)
AD 868 — Pang Xun, a frontier soldier of Guilin, took Xuzhou and killed Jiedushi Cui Yanzeng (the Pang Xun Rebellion). (Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals 舊唐書卷19上咸通9年)
AD 868 — Pang Xun captured Xuzhou; Circuit Surveillance Commissioner Cui Yanzeng was killed in battle. (New Book of Tang (Xin Tangshu), Annals 新唐書卷009 懿宗·僖宗咸通9年10月)
AD 868 — Pang Xun's rebel army reaches Suzhou. (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 資治通鑑卷251)
AD 869 — Ma Ju attacked Pang Xun at Huanhe; Pang Xun drowned, and the Xuzhou rebellion was suppressed. (Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals 舊唐書卷19上咸通10年 9月)
AD 869 — Tanchuo Qiulong, biaoxin of Nanzhao, attacked Xiuzhou with 20,000 troops. (Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals 舊唐書卷19上咸通10年 11月)
AD 869 — Kang Chengxun takes Linhuan and kills or captures ten thousand men. (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 資治通鑑卷251)

Korean Peninsula (1)

AD 867 — Gyeon Hwon was born in Gaeun district of Sangju; his father Ajagae proclaimed himself a general at Sabulseong. (Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) 紀異第二後百濟甄萱)

Japan (17)

AD 866 — On the twenty-second day of the intercalary third month, because the Ōten Gate burned, all officials are gathered before the Kaishō Gate. Twenty monks of Sūfuku-ji read the Daihannyakyō for seven days, and ten monks of Bonshaku-ji perform the Shitennō rite for seven days to avert the calamity. (The Ōten Gate and the east and west galleries burned on the night of the tenth day of the intercalary third month.) (Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku 卷第十二貞觀8年閏3月廿二日 (원문 12.94))
AD 866 — On the seventeenth day of the fourth month, the Onyōryō warns that a neighboring country's soldiers may be watching, and orders Dazaifu to set up guard; the governors of Buzen and Nagato are reprimanded for Tang people entering the capital at will. (Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku 卷第十二貞觀8年4月十七日 (원문 12.120))
AD 866 — On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, a Dazaifu post report: a man of Ki district in Hizen accuses San Chunyeong, together with the Silla man Jin Binjang, of crossing to Silla, learning weapon-making, and returning to attack Tsushima; a list of conspirators and a roster of 45 archers are attached. (Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku 卷第十三貞觀8年7月十五日 (원문 13.46))
AD 866 — On the third day of the eighth month, Ōtaku no Ōtori of the left capital accuses Great Counselor Tomo no Yoshio and the Assistant of the Right Gate Guards Tomo no Nakatsune of conspiring to set fire to the Ōten Gate (the Ōten Gate incident). (Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku 卷第十三貞觀8年8月三日 (원문 13.58))
AD 866 — On the nineteenth day of the eighth month, by imperial decree, Daijō-daijin Fujiwara no Yoshifusa is ordered to conduct the government of the realm (the beginning of regency). (Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku 卷第十三貞觀8年8月十九日 (원문 13.74))
AD 866 — On the seventeenth day of the eleventh month, an imperial edict: strange events are frequent and divination says Silla enemy soldiers are watching for a gap. Offerings are made to the provinces of Noto, Inaba, Hōki, Izumo, Iwami, Oki, Nagato and the provinces under Dazaifu for the protection of the realm, and kengai and picked soldiers are to be trained. (Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku 卷第十三貞觀8年11月十七日 (원문 13.152))
AD 867 — This year the country suffers shortages both inside and out; people starve, especially in the Kinai. Bandits gather in groups to block roads, plunder and set fires, so provincial governors are ordered to set up five-household mutual-surveillance units (gokasakuhō) to watch over the population. (Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku 卷第十四貞觀9年十三日 (원문 14.44))
AD 867 — In Miyazaki village of Iyo province, pirates gather in bands and plunder, cutting off the official sea route. The provinces of Settsu, Izumi, Sanyō and Nankaidō are ordered to cooperate in capturing them. (Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku 卷第十四貞觀9年十日 (원문 14.236))
AD 868 — The province of Dewa reports that six stone arrowheads fell like rain in front of the two shrines of Tsukiyama and Ōmonoki in Akumi district. (Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku 卷第十五貞觀10年十五日 (원문 15.68))
AD 868 — On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, Harima province reports that on the eighth of this month a great earthquake collapsed the official residences of several districts and the pagodas and halls of the registered temples (jōgakuji) (the Harima earthquake of the tenth year of Jōgan). (Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku 卷第十五貞觀10年7月十五日 (원문 15.126))

Southeast Asia (4)

AD 866 — Gao Pian besieged the prefectural city for more than ten days, and the Man were reduced to dire straits. (Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư 外紀卷之五「丙戌夏四月，南詔除段酋遷為遣襲善」)
AD 866 — The Tang established the Zhenhai Army in Giao Châu and made Gao Pian its jiedushi (military governor). (Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư 外紀卷之五「丙戌夏四月，南詔除段酋遷為遣襲善」)
AD 866 — Gao Pian marched from Haimen, broke the Southern Man army, and restored the Annam Protectorate. (Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals 舊唐書卷19上咸通7年)
AD 866 — Gao Pian besieges Jiaozhi for more than ten days. (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 資治通鑑卷250)

Western Europe (4)

AD 866 — A great heathen army came in and wintered in East Anglia, obtaining horses; the inhabitants made peace with them. (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Giles/Ingram 1847 A.D. 866 항 (pg657.txt 줄 2718))
AD 867 — The heathen army crossed the Humber and advanced to York in Northumbria; the divided Northumbrians gathered around their kings Osberht and Ælla and fought them at York. (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Giles/Ingram 1847 A.D. 867 항 (pg657.txt 줄 2724))
AD 868 — The army wintered at Nottingham in Mercia; at Burgred's request Æthelred and Alfred of Wessex came and besieged them, and peace was made without a major battle. (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Giles/Ingram 1847 A.D. 868 항 (pg657.txt 줄 2738))
AD 869 — The army returned to York and stayed there a year. (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Giles/Ingram 1847 A.D. 869 항 (pg657.txt 줄 2747))

Changes of power ◆

◆ AD 866 — County of Ribagorza appears
◆ AD 866 — Norway appears
◆ AD 866 — Shirvan appears
◆ AD 866 — Ziyadid dynasty appears
◆ AD 866 — Duchy of Spoleto ends

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