State · 1812 – 1813
Bessarabia
A state of 1812 – 1813 — one year in Europe. It replaced Principality of Moldavia.
- Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 1812 to 1813, and those are the years drawn here.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- one year
- 1812 – 1813
- Most ground
- 41,900 km²
- in 1812
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Principality of Moldavia · replaces · 1346 – 1859
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
41,900 km² in 1812, 41,900 km² in 1813. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood1 years
stood longer than 3% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held41,900 km²
held more ground at its peak than 32% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1802 – 1823, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1812, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q174994 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.