Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1701 – 1815

Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

A state of 1701 – 1815 — 114 years in Europe. It followed Duchy of Mecklenburg. It was replaced by Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Its line of rulers holds 4 people.

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

Stood
114 years
1701 – 1815
Rulers
4
the Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Most ground
11,200 km²
in 1812
Symbols
2
on record, with years
Map: Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in 1812, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in 1812, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 11,200 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.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Duchy of Mecklenburg: 1471 – 1701Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz: 1815 – 1918Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz: 1701 – 1815

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

After it

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

Adolphus Frederick II · 1701 – 1708 · no death date to read the end againstAdolphus Frederick III · 1708 – 1752 · no death date to read the end againstAdolf Friedrich IV, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz · 1752 – 1794 · no death date to read the end againstKarl II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz · 1794 – 1815 · no death date to read the end against17201740176017801800
ending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Adolphus Frederick II1701 – 17087 yearsending not on record
Adolphus Frederick III1708 – 175244 yearsending not on recordchild
Adolf Friedrich IV, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz1752 – 179442 yearsending not on recordnephew or niece
Karl II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz1794 – 181521 yearsending not on recordsibling

4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1701 – 1815. Median reign 31.5 years. 0 of 3 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.

18111812181318141815

10,800 km² in 1811, 11,200 km² in 1815. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

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

  • Flagge Großherzogtümer Mecklenburg
    flag, undatedFlagge Großherzogtümer Mecklenburg · Public domain
  • Wappen Mecklenburg-Strelitz 2
    coat of arms, undatedWappen Mecklenburg-Strelitz 2 · Public domain

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 stood114 years

    stood longer than 50% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held11,200 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 15% 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 median42 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 92% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record4

    has more rulers on record than 58% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 14 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.

Holy Roman Empire · Linked · 962 – 1806Holy Roman EmpireDuchy of Mecklenburg · Linked · 1471 – 1701Duchy of MecklenburgDuchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz · 1701 – 1815Duchy of Mecklenburg-StrelitzGrand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz · Linked · 1815 – 1918Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strel…10001200140016001800
linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

  • Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling

    Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009

    Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.

    • the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 114

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q2751106 (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.