State · 880 – 1795

County of Holland

A state of 880 – 1795 — 915 years in Europe. It was followed by Delf Department. The atlas records 11 things within it — wars and battles 6 · people 5. Its line of rulers holds 8 people, 5 with dated terms.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 915 years; 880 – 1795
Rulers: 8; the Grand Pensionary
Most ground: 11,500 km²; in 1305
Within it: 11; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: County of Holland in 1305, its borders in gold among its neighbours — County of Holland in 1305, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 11,500 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

County of Holland in 1260, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

County of Holland in 1305, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

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.

After it

Delf Department · followed by

Rulers

The line of Grand Pensionary.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source
Anthonie Duyck	1621 – 1629	8 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Adriaan Pauw	1631 – 1636	5 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Jacob Cats	1636 – 1651	15 years	resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Adriaan Pauw	1651 – 1653	2 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Johan de Witt	1653 – 1672	19 years	killedWikidata's manner of death
Pauwel Heinderycx	1684 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record

8 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 1621 – 1684. Median reign 8 years. 1 of 5 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

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.

8,400 km² in 1280, 11,500 km² in 1355; at its largest 11,500 km² in 1305. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

coat of arms, undatedCounts of Holland Arms · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Ipankonin

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1300 – 13991 row · 1 wars and battles

Battle of Zierikzee · battle · 1304

1500 – 15997 rows · 3 wars and battles

Jacob Cats · ruler · 1577 – 1660
Siege of Leiden · battle · 1573 – 1574
Siege of Haarlem · battle · 1572 – 1573
Siege of Alkmaar · battle · 1573
Andries de Witt · ruler · 1573 – 1637
Anthonie Duyck · ruler · 1560 – 1629
Adriaan Pauw · ruler · 1585 – 1653

1600 – 16993 rows · 2 wars and battles

Johan de Witt · ruler · 1625 – 1672
Battle of Texel · battle · 1673
Holmes's Bonfire · battle · 1666

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 stood915 years
stood longer than 96% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held11,500 km²
held more ground at its peak than 16% 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.
How long a reign lasted, at the median8 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 29% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record8
has more rulers on record than 76% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 0 causes the record names and 1 result, 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.

linked

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, 788 – 1887, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1305, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q762943 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.