Empire1130 – 1282 · 152 years

Kingdom of Sicily

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

No editorial summary yet for Kingdom of Sicily. The border provenance and the wars recorded for this polity are what the dataset holds.

Borders & accuracy

Reconstructed borders

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
DETAILhistorical-basemaps:1200:Dutchy of Benevento (r15)
SNAPSHOT1200
MATCHEDDutchy of Benevento
POLITY TYPEstate

HBM 1200 labels the whole Norman-Hohenstaufen kingdom (Sicily + the Mezzogiorno) "Dutchy of Benevento"; the geometry is the Kingdom of Sicily. Founded 1130 (Roger II), Hohenstaufen from 1194, Angevin from 1266; ends 1282 when the Sicilian Vespers split it (europe-naples continues the mainland).

Wars of this empire7

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

War of the Sicilian Vespers1282–1302
Significant · 50K dead
Byzantine–Norman wars1081–1185
Significant
Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland1169–75
Significant
Battle of Apulia1155
Regional
Battle of Brindisi1156
Regional
Battle of Waterford1170
Regional
Battle of Pelagonia1259
Regional

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1130 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Kingdom of Sicily (1130 – 1282). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/kingdom-of-sicily · Sources & methodology