List of Rump States - High Middle Ages

High Middle Ages

• Srivijaya from the Chola invasion of 1025 to its conquest by the Majapahit Empire in 1365.
• The Ghaznavid Empire from its loss of Khorasan to the Seljuq Empire in 1040 until its liquidation by the Ghurids in 1187. See also Battle of Dandanaqan.
• Denmark after the death of King Harthacanute and the resulting dissolution of the union between itself and England in 1042, until the reign of Valdemar the Great in the mid-12th century.
• The Zirid and Hammadid Empires of North Africa from the Bedouin invasion c. 1049 to their liquidation by the Almohad Empire in 1152.
• The Ghana Empire from 1062 to its conquest by the Almoravids in 1076.
• The Deccan empire of the Western Chalukyas because of Chola aggression from 1064 to 1115 and from 1126 to its dissolution in 1180.
• The Fatimid Caliphate from 1070 until its conquest by Saladin in 1169.
• The Kingdom of Navarre from the late 11th century to its liquidation by Aragon in 1516.
• The Pagan Kingdom of Myanmar from the late 11th century until the invasion of the Mongol-founded Yuan Dynasty in 1289. (Map)
• The Chola Empire of southern India from 1118 to its liquidation by the Pandyan Kingdom in 1279. (Map)
• The Southern Song Dynasty of China, founded 1126, after progressive loss of its northern lands to the Jurchen Jin Dynasty and other tribes until the Mongol conquest of the following century.
• The Kingdom of León from the secession of Portugal in 1143 to its union with the Kingdom of Castile in 1230.
• France during the loss of the majority of its territory to the Angevin Empire from c. 1154 to 1214. (Map)
• Albania from the late 12th century to its Ottoman conquest in 1385.
• The Seljuq Empire after its loss of Syria to Saladin in 1174 and the secession of Georgia and Armenia.
• The Kingdom of Jerusalem after the defeat by Saladin in 1187, to its liquidation in 1244.
• The Sultanate of Rum as the successor to the Seljuq Empire after the loss of its eastern lands to the Khwarezmid Empire in 1194. (Map)
• The Kingdom of Castile from its defeat by the Almohad Empire at the Battle of Alarcos in 1195 until its defeat of the Almohads in the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212.
• The Byzantine Empire after the Fourth Crusade as the Empire of Nicaea (also Empire of Trebizond and Despotate of Epirus). (Map A, Map B)
• The Angevin Empire as the dual monarchy of England and Aquitaine from the revolt of the Lusignans and its loss of NW France in 1202 to its dissolution in 1214.
• Wales because of English aggression from 1211 to 1218 and 1241 to its final integration with England in 1535 . See also Statute of Rhuddlan and Laws in Wales Acts 1535–1542.
• The Latin Empire from c. 1215 because of successive losses of territory to the Despotate of Epirus (map), Bulgaria (map), and the Empire of Nicaea (map) until its Nicaean conquest in 1261. See also Peter of Courtenay.
• The Despotate of Epirus from 1230 because of successive losses of territory to Bulgaria (map), the Empire of Nicaea map, and the Serbian Empire (map) until its Serbian conquest in 1358.
• The Kingdom of Georgia from the Mongol invasion of 1236 until its disintegration in the 15th century.
• Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, and the Sultanate of Rum during the Mongol aggression of the mid-13th century.
• The Ayyubid Caliphate because of Mamluk aggression, from its loss of Egypt in 1250 to its conquest in 1334.
• The Duchy of Pisa from its loss of Corsica and Sardinia to Genoa in 1284 until its conquest by Florence in 1406. See also Battle of Meloria.