Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1774 – 1918

Duchy of Oldenburg

A state of 1774 – 1918 — 144 years in Europe. It followed Holy Roman Empire, Prince-Bishopric of Lübeck and County of Oldenburg. It was replaced by Grand Duchy of Oldenburg. The atlas records 4 things within it — wars and battles 3 · people 1. Its line of rulers holds 1 person.

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

Stood
144 years
1774 – 1918
Rulers
1
the Duke of Oldenburg
Most ground
4,800 km²
in 1820
Within it
4
recorded rows
Symbols
2
on record, with years
Map: Duchy of Oldenburg in 1820, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Duchy of Oldenburg in 1820, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 4,800 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 BCE110002000Holy Roman Empire: 962 – 1806County of Oldenburg: 1091 – 1774Prince-Bishopric of Lübeck: 1160 – 1803Duchy of Oldenburg: 1774 – 1918

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

  • Grand Duchy of Oldenburg · replaced by

Rulers

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

Peter Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Oldenburg · 1785 – 1810 · no death date to read the end against180018501900
ending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Peter Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Oldenburg1785 – 181025 yearsending not on record

1 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 1785 – 1810. Only 25 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 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.

18201830184018501860

4,400 km² in 1814, 4,800 km² in 1864; at its largest 4,800 km² in 1824. 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.

  • CoAAugustFriedrich (cropped)
    coat of arms, undatedCoAAugustFriedrich (cropped) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Concord
  • Blason Gérard VI (1430-1500), comte d'Oldenbourg et de Delmenhorst
    coat of arms, undatedBlason Gérard VI (1430-1500), comte d'Oldenbourg et de Delmenhorst · CC BY 3.0

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.

1700 – 1799: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other17001800 – 1899: 2 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other18001900 – 1999: 2 recorded — 2 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1900

1800 – 18992 rows · 1 wars and battles

1900 – 19992 rows · 2 wars and battles

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 stood144 years

    stood longer than 54% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held4,800 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 9% 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.

  • Rulers on record1

    has more rulers on record than 13% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 16 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 EmpireCounty of Oldenburg · Linked · 1091 – 1774County of OldenburgPrince-Bishopric of Lübeck · Linked · 1160 – 1803Prince-Bishopric of LübeckDuchy of Oldenburg · 1774 – 1918Duchy of OldenburgGrand Duchy of Oldenburg · Linked · 1814 – 1918Grand Duchy of Oldenburg10001200140016001800
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 144

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q697084 (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.