State · 1806 – 1813

Grand Duchy of Berg

A state of 1806 – 1813 — 7 years in Europe. It replaced Duchy of Berg, Duchy of Cleves and Herrschaft Rheda. The atlas records 1 thing within it — wars and battles 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: 7 years; 1806 – 1813
Rulers: 1; the Grand Duke of Berg
Most ground: 21,300 km²; in 1807
Within it: 1; recorded row
Symbols: 3; on record, with years

Map: Grand Duchy of Berg in 1807, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Grand Duchy of Berg in 1807, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 21,300 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

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

Duchy of Berg · replaces · 1380 – 1806
Duchy of Cleves · replaces · 1092 – 1795
Herrschaft Rheda · replaces

Rulers

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

ending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Napoleon	1808 – 1809	1 year	ending not on record

1 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 1808 – 1809. Only 1 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.

16,800 km² in 1806, 6,400 km² in 1813; at its largest 16,800 km² in 1806. 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.

coat of arms, undatedBlason Joachim Murat Grand-Duc de Clèves et de Berg (Orn ext) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · original file by Jimmy44 . Current version by Katepanomegas
coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of Napoleon Bonaparte Louis Grand Duke of Cleves and Berg · CC BY-SA 3.0
flag, undatedFlag of the Grand Duchy of Berg (1806-1808) · 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.

1800 – 18991 row · 1 wars and battles

Battle of Saalfeld · battle · 1806

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 stood7 years
stood longer than 15% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held21,300 km²
held more ground at its peak than 22% 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: 3 causes the record names and 0 results, 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, 1796 – 1823, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1807, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q249428 (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.