Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1534 – 1980

French colonial empire

A state of 1534 – 1980 — 446 years in Europe. The atlas records 3 things within it — wars and battles 3. 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
446 years
1534 – 1980
Rulers
1
the steward
Most ground
400 km²
in 1805
Within it
3
recorded rows
Symbols
2
on record, with years
Map: French colonial empire in 1805, its borders in gold among its neighbours
French colonial empire in 1805, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 400 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 BCE110002000French colonial empire: 1534 – 1980

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

Rulers

The line of steward.

RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before

1 rulers, 0 with terms dated as terms. 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.

1809

400 km² in 1809. 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.

  • Grand Royal Coat of Arms of France
    coat of arms, undatedGrand Royal Coat of Arms of France · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Royal Standard of the King of France
    flag, 1638 – 1790Royal Standard of the King of France · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sodacan

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: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other15001600 – 1699: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other16001700 – 1799: 1 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other17001800 – 1899: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other18001900 – 1999: 2 recorded — 2 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1900

1700 – 17991 row · 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 stood446 years

    stood longer than 83% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held400 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 1% 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.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q179023 (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.