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State · 1581 – 1795

Dutch Republic

A state of 1581 – 1795 — 214 years in Europe. It replaced Seventeen Provinces and followed Spanish Netherlands and Habsburg Netherlands. It was replaced by Batavian Republic. The atlas records 95 things within it — wars and battles 24 · unrest and atrocity 5 · treaties 10 · people 56. Its line of rulers holds 5 people, 2 with dated terms. Its own article says it was partitioned.

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

Stood
214 years
1581 – 1795
Rulers
5
the ambachtsheer
Most ground
615,000 km²
in 1791
Within it
95
recorded rows
Symbols
2
on record, with years
Map: Dutch Republic in 1791, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Dutch Republic in 1791, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 615,000 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.
Dutch Republic in 1581, first mapped

1581 · first mapped · 38,400 km²

Dutch Republic in 1791, at its largest

1791 · at its largest · 615,000 km²

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

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Seventeen Provinces: 1482 – 1581Spanish Netherlands: 1581 – 1714Batavian Republic: 1795 – 1806Dutch Republic: 1581 – 1795

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

How it ended, as its article says

Partitioned. Read from the article's section “History - Patriot rebellion and its suppression (1785–1795)” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

Although they were able to curtail the power of the stadholder, and hold democratic elections in select towns, they were divided in their political vision, which was more local than national.

One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rulers

The line of ambachtsheer.

Volkert Overlander · 1612 – 1630 · died in office, manner not recordedEverhard van Weede Dijkvelt · 1665 – … · no end recorded1600165017001750
died in officeending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Volkert Overlander1612 – 163018 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Everhard van Weede Dijkvelt1665 – —no end recordedending not on record

5 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1612 – 1665. Median reign 18 years. 0 of 1 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.

1600165017001750

38,400 km² in 1581, 315,900 km² in 1795; at its largest 615,000 km² in 1791. 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.

  • Statenvlag
    flag, undatedStatenvlag · Public domain
  • Coat of arms of the republic of the united Netherlands
    coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of the republic of the united Netherlands · Public domain

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.

1500 – 1599: 14 recorded — 4 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 10 other15001600 – 1699: 58 recorded — 16 wars and battles, 2 risings, regime changes and massacres, 40 other16001700 – 1799: 22 recorded — 4 wars and battles, 2 risings, regime changes and massacres, 16 other1700

1500 – 159914 rows · 4 wars and battles

and 6 more in the atlas.

1600 – 169958 rows · 16 wars and battles · 2 risings, regime changes and massacres

and 50 more in the atlas.

1700 – 179922 rows · 4 wars and battles · 2 risings, regime changes and massacres

and 14 more in the atlas.

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 stood214 years

    stood longer than 64% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held615,000 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 77% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per century0.9

    had more wars on record per century than 93% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • How long a reign lasted, at the median18 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 56% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record5

    has more rulers on record than 64% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 44 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.

Seventeen Provinces · Linked · 1482 – 1581Seventeen ProvincesHabsburg Netherlands · Linked · 1482 – 1797Habsburg NetherlandsEighty Years' War · Linked · 1568 – 1648Eighty Years' WarDutch Revolt · Linked · 1568 – 1648Dutch RevoltSpanish Netherlands · Linked · 1581 – 1714Spanish NetherlandsWilliam the Silent · Coincidence · 1533 – 1584William the SilentDutch Republic · 1581 – 1795Dutch RepublicBatavian Republic · Linked · 1795 – 1806Batavian Republic1500160017001800
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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

Wikidata Q170072 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.