Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1815 – 1918

Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

A state of 1815 – 1918 — 103 years in Europe. It replaced Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. It was replaced by Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The atlas records 2 things within it — people 2. 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
103 years
1815 – 1918
Rulers
4
the Head of the House of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Most ground
11,200 km²
in 1816
Within it
2
recorded rows
Symbols
2
on record, with years
Map: Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1816, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1816, 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-Schwerin: 1701 – 1815Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin: 1815 – 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

  • Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin · replaced by

Rulers

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

Paul Friedrich I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin · 1837 – 1842 · no death date to read the end againstFrederick Francis II · 1842 – 1883 · no death date to read the end againstFrederick Francis III · 1883 – 1897 · no death date to read the end againstFrederick Francis IV · 1897 – 1918 · abdicated, the article says18201840186018801900
deposed, abdicated, exiled or removedending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Paul Friedrich I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin1837 – 18425 yearsending not on record
Frederick Francis II1842 – 188341 yearsending not on recordchild
Frederick Francis III1883 – 189714 yearsending not on recordchild
Frederick Francis IV1897 – 191821 yearsabdicated, the article saysread from the ruler's own articlechild

4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1837 – 1918. Median reign 17.5 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.

1830184018501860

11,200 km² in 1825, 11,200 km² in 1865; at its largest 11,200 km² in 1825. 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 of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg - Schwerin
    coat of arms, undatedCoat of Arms of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg - Schwerin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Glasshouse , using elements by Sodacan, Trondivers
  • Flagge Großherzogtümer Mecklenburg
    flag, undatedFlagge Großherzogtümer Mecklenburg · 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 – 1899: 2 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 2 other18001900 – 1999: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1900

1800 – 18992 rows

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 stood103 years

    stood longer than 47% 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 median21 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 66% 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: 1 cause 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.

Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin · Linked · 1701 – 1815Duchy of Mecklenburg-SchwerinGrand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin · 1815 – 1918Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-SchwerinFree State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin · Linked · 1918 – 1933Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin17001750180018501900
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 103

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q158445 (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.