World map in AD 884 — territory by country

Frame AD 884 — world borders from AD 884 to AD 885. 102 countries have territory in this frame, and the largest is Abbasid Caliphate (≈ 5.04 million km²).

Countries with territory in this frame (102, largest first)

Rank	Country	Area
1	Abbasid Caliphate	≈ 5.04 million km²
2	Tang dynasty	≈ 3.12 million km²
3	Saffarid dynasty	≈ 1.97 million km²
4	Tibetans	≈ 1.87 million km²
5	Kimak–Kipchak confederation	≈ 1.43 million km²
6	West Francia	≈ 1.17 million km²
7	Tulunids	≈ 973 thousand km²
8	Kara-Khanid Khanate	≈ 816 thousand km²
9	Rashtrakuta Empire	≈ 785 thousand km²
10	Khazars	≈ 749 thousand km²
11	Qocho	≈ 653 thousand km²
12	Kievan Rus'	≈ 649 thousand km²
13	Byzantine Empire	≈ 649 thousand km²
14	Pratihara dynasty	≈ 644 thousand km²
15	Srivijaya	≈ 538 thousand km²
16	Balhae	≈ 483 thousand km²
17	Rustamid dynasty	≈ 470 thousand km²
18	Oghuz Khagan	≈ 450 thousand km²
19	First Bulgarian Empire	≈ 425 thousand km²
20	Yenisei Kyrgyz	≈ 424 thousand km²
21	Umayyad state of Córdoba	≈ 407 thousand km²
22	Khmer Empire	≈ 398 thousand km²
23	Hungarians	≈ 382 thousand km²
24	Pala Empire	≈ 335 thousand km²
25	Nanzhao	≈ 322 thousand km²
26	Great Moravia	≈ 282 thousand km²
27	Norway	≈ 282 thousand km²
28	Aghlabid dynasty	≈ 247 thousand km²
29	Heian period	≈ 244 thousand km²
30	Ganzhou Uyghur Kingdom	≈ 233 thousand km²
31	Habbari Emirate	≈ 230 thousand km²
32	Vendel Period	≈ 229 thousand km²
33	Ziyadid dynasty	≈ 215 thousand km²
34	Makuria	≈ 213 thousand km²
35	Ghana Empire	≈ 204 thousand km²
36	Idrisid dynasty	≈ 194 thousand km²
37	Maya civilization	≈ 177 thousand km²
38	Unified Silla	≈ 150 thousand km²
39	Kashmir	≈ 150 thousand km²
40	Haripuñjaya	≈ 143 thousand km²
41	Champa	≈ 130 thousand km²
42	Kingdom of Asturias	≈ 129 thousand km²
43	Lavo Kingdom	≈ 126 thousand km²
44	Alodia	≈ 124 thousand km²
45	Kingdom of Aksum	≈ 97 thousand km²
46	Pyu city-states	≈ 95 thousand km²
47	Kamarupa	≈ 93 thousand km²
48	Pandya dynasty	≈ 78 thousand km²
49	Anuradhapura	≈ 74 thousand km²
50	Sunda Kingdom	≈ 62 thousand km²
51	Vikings	≈ 62 thousand km²
52	Mataram kingdom	≈ 60 thousand km²
53	Wessex	≈ 58 thousand km²
54	Danelaw	≈ 55 thousand km²
55	Kingdom of Brittany	≈ 46 thousand km²
56	Volga Bulgaria	≈ 44 thousand km²
57	Dál Riata	≈ 42 thousand km²
58	Shirvan	≈ 42 thousand km²
59	Alid dynasties of northern Iran	≈ 41 thousand km²
60	Principality of Serbia	≈ 38 thousand km²
61	Casablanca	≈ 36 thousand km²
62	Georgia	≈ 29 thousand km²
63	Pagan Kingdom	≈ 27 thousand km²
64	Kingdom of the Iberians	≈ 24 thousand km²
65	Duchy of Spoleto	≈ 23 thousand km²
66	Muslim Sicily	≈ 23 thousand km²
67	Ancestral Puebloans	≈ 21 thousand km²
68	County of Ribagorza	≈ 21 thousand km²
69	Duchy of Croatia	≈ 21 thousand km²
70	Celtic Britons	≈ 20 thousand km²
71	Classic Veracruz culture	≈ 19 thousand km²
72	Principality of Salerno	≈ 18 thousand km²
73	Papal States	≈ 16 thousand km²
74	Northumbria	≈ 16 thousand km²
75	County of Urgell	≈ 15 thousand km²
76	Obotrites	≈ 15 thousand km²
77	Duchy of Benevento	≈ 13 thousand km²
78	Cyprus	≈ 11 thousand km²
79	Judicate of Cagliari	≈ 10 thousand km²
80	Strathclyde	≈ 9,426 km²
81	Zapotec civilization	≈ 8,550 km²
82	Judicate of Logudoro	≈ 8,247 km²
83	Emirate of Nekor	≈ 7,039 km²
84	Kingdom of Gwynedd	≈ 6,364 km²
85	Toltec	≈ 5,605 km²
86	Emirate of Crete	≈ 5,499 km²
87	County of Pallars	≈ 4,685 km²
88	Judicate of Gallura	≈ 4,598 km²
89	Cornwall	≈ 4,538 km²
90	Seisyllwg	≈ 4,512 km²
91	Kingdom of Powys	≈ 4,359 km²
92	Lower Burgundy	≈ 4,315 km²
93	Judicate of Arborea	≈ 3,878 km²
94	County of Aragon	≈ 3,585 km²
95	Chola Empire	≈ 3,058 km²
96	Republic of Venice	≈ 2,571 km²
97	Brycheiniog	≈ 1,962 km²
98	Kingdom of Morgannwg	≈ 1,510 km²
99	Kingdom of Gwent	≈ 1,311 km²
100	Duchy of Naples	≈ 1,059 km²
101	Principality of Capua	≈ 384 km²
102	Mercia	≈ 44 km²

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

New countries in this frame (1)

Cyprus

The world in AD 884

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

China (18)

AD 884 — As Huang Chao's army crossed the Bian River at Zhongmu, it was ambushed by the Shatuo, and half of it was killed or drowned. (Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals 舊唐書卷19下中和4年)
AD 884 — Zhu Quanzhong got Li Keyong drunk at Shangyuan Post in Bianzhou, then surrounded him and set fire; Keyong barely escaped by climbing over the wall. (Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals 舊唐書卷19下中和4年)
AD 884 — Huang Chao's subordinate Lin Yan beheaded Huang Chao and his brothers and surrendered to Shi Pu, ending the Huang Chao Rebellion. (Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals 舊唐書卷19下中和4年 6月)
AD 884 — Huang Chao was executed, ending the Huang Chao Rebellion. (New Book of Tang (Xin Tangshu), Annals 新唐書卷009 懿宗·僖宗中和4年7月)
AD 884 — Li Keyong was staying at Bianzhou when Zhu Quanzhong set fire to the Shangyuan Post Station after a banquet and attacked; Keyong escaped the city in the rain. (New History of the Five Dynasties (Xin Wudai shi), Annals 新五代史卷04 中和4年)
AD 884 — Li Keyong leaves Tianjing Pass with fifty thousand Fanhan troops. (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 資治通鑑卷255)
AD 884 — Huang Chao besieges Chenzhou for nearly three hundred days. (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 資治通鑑卷255)
AD 884 — Zheng Junxiong beheads Yang Shili and surrenders. (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 資治通鑑卷256)
AD 884 — Shi Pu sends the heads of Huang Chao and his family, and the emperor receives them at the Daxuan Tower in Xuzhou. (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 資治通鑑卷256)
AD 885 — Emperor Xizong returned from Shu to Chang'an. (Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals 舊唐書卷19下光啟1年)

Japan (6)

AD 884 — On the fourth day of the second month, Emperor Yōzei, claiming illness, sends a holograph request to the Daijō-daijin asking to hand over the throne, and moves to the Ijō-in, where he abdicates. (Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku 卷第卌四元慶8年2月 (원문 44.160))
AD 884 — On the twenty-third day of the second month, Emperor Kōkō ascends the throne at the Daikyokuden and proclaims an edict. (Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku 卷第卌五元慶8年2月廿三日 (원문 45.26))
AD 884 — On the night of the fifteenth day of the third month, a great thunderstorm and heavy rain strike the pagoda of Jōjū-ji with lightning; fire breaks out from its fifth story, and the lecture hall, main hall, bell tower, sutra repository, corridors and central gate burn to ashes in a moment. (Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku 卷第卌五元慶8年3月十五日 (원문 45.55))
AD 884 — On the twenty-ninth day of the ninth month, Dewa reports that on the twenty-sixth day of the sixth month thunder and rain darkened Tsuiden castle and twenty-three stone arrowheads fell; on the second day of the seventh month they fell also on the seashore of Akumi district. The Onyōryō divines a warning of military levies or epidemic. (Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku 卷第卌六元慶8年9月廿九日 (원문 46.104))
AD 885 — On the first day of the eighth month the Onyōryō divines military levies on the northern and western frontiers and orders guard duty (kego) in the Hokurikudō provinces, in Nagato, and at Dazaifu. (Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku 卷第卌八仁和元年8月 (원문 48.16))
AD 885 — A Tang merchant arrives at Dazaifu. The deputy governor is ordered to forbid the envoy of Wang Xinjia and the officials and people of the district from competing to buy goods at high prices. (Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku 卷第卌八仁和元年10月廿日 (원문 48.89))

West Asia (2)

AD 884 — Amr ibn al-Layth is declared a rebel; a governor of Khurasan is appointed (Al-Tabari, History of the Prophets and Kings Series III tom.4 (Arg.) [india.history.resource.86990], Annus 271)
AD 885 — Hamdan ibn Hamdun and others take Mosul (Al-Tabari, History of the Prophets and Kings Series III tom.4 (Arg.) [india.history.resource.86990], Annus 272 (OCR 「979」))

Western Europe (2)

AD 884 — The army went up the Somme and wintered at Amiens for a year. (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Giles/Ingram 1847 A.D. 884 항 (pg657.txt 줄 2930))
AD 885 — The army split in two; one part besieged Rochester, but when Alfred came with his army they withdrew by ship. (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Giles/Ingram 1847 A.D. 885 항 (pg657.txt 줄 2934))

Eastern Europe & Russia (1)

AD 884 — While Oleg's army was on the banks of the Dniester and the Bug, a camp of Hungarian nomads (Ugrians) appeared before the walls of the new capital, Kyiv. (Karamzin, History of the Russian State 제1권 V장)

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