Realm · approximate borders · 1190–1215

Principality of Arbanon

First Albanian state recorded in the sources, ruled by Progon and his sons from Krujë east and north-east of the Byzantine and Venetian coast. In 1208 Dhimitër Progoni described his land to Pope Innocent III as the mountain region between Shkodër, Durrës, Ohrid and Prizren.

After 1216 it passed under Epirus, then Bulgaria and Nicaea. Sources: Wikipedia 'Principality of Arbanon' (citing Elsie 2010, Winnifrith 1992, Nicol 1986); Shepherd plate 89 (Byzantine Empire 1265) for the later setting.

See Principality of Arbanon on the map in 1190

On the map: 1190–1215
Capital: Krujë

Rulers named in the sources

Progon 1190–1198
Gjin Progoni 1198–1208
Dhimitër Progoni 1208–1216

Eastern European states, 82 BC – 1952

States of central-eastern and south-eastern Europe, the Baltic and the north-western Caucasus: Burebista's and Decebalus' Dacia, the principality of Abasgia, Rus' Tmutarakan, Circassia until the Russian conquest of 1864, the Emirate of Bari, the Albanian principalities of Arbanon and the Thopia and Skanderbeg's League of Lezhë, Zeta under the Balšići and Crnojevići, Lombard Negroponte, Acciaioli Athens, the Livonian prince-bishoprics of Riga and Ösel–Wiek, the prince-bishops of Montenegro, the wartime Slovak Republic and post-war Poland before 1953. Few of these frontiers were ever surveyed.