State · 1569 – 1860
Grand Duchy of Tuscany
A state of 1569 – 1860 — 291 years in Europe. It replaced Duchy of Florence and Republic of Cospaia. It was replaced by United Provinces of Central Italy. The atlas records 12 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 10 · works and ideas 1. Its line of rulers holds 2 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
- 291 years
- 1569 – 1860
- Rulers
- 2
- the Grand Duke
- Most ground
- 24,600 km²
- in 1848
- Within it
- 12
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
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 Florence · replaces · 1532 – 1569
- Republic of Cospaia · replaces · 1441 – 1826
After it
- United Provinces of Central Italy · replaced by · 1859 – 1860
Rulers
Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cosimo I de' Medici | 1569 – 1574 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Ferdinand IV of Tuscany | 1859 – 1860 | 1 year | ending not on record |
2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1569 – 1860. Median reign 3 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.
20,100 km² in 1569, 900 km² in 1839; at its largest 20,100 km² in 1569. 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, undatedGreater coat of Arms of the Grand duchy of Tuscany · CC BY-SA 4.0 
flag, undatedFlag of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany with Great Coat of arms · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Euryrel
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 – 15991 row
- Ottavio Piccolomini · commander · 1599 – 1656
1600 – 16995 rows · 1 wars and battles
- Evangelista Torricelli · inventor · 1608 – 1647
- Pope Clement IX · politician · 1600 – 1669
- Ferdinando II de' Medici · politician · 1610 – 1670
- Wars of Castro · war · 1641 – 1649
- Enea Silvio Piccolomini · commander · 1651 – 1689
1700 – 17993 rows
- Piano · discovery · 1700
- Ferdinand III of Tuscany · politician · 1769 – 1824
- Leopold II of Tuscany · politician · 1797 – 1870
1800 – 18993 rows
- Giacomo Puccini · artist · 1858 – 1924
- Giosuè Carducci · politician · 1835 – 1907
- Filippo Pacini · person · 1812 – 1883
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 stood291 years
stood longer than 72% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held24,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 24% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century0.3
had more wars on record per century than 90% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median5 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 18% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record2
has more rulers on record than 34% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 4 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.
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.
Challenge, failed response and dissolution
Toynbee 1934 · Toynbee & Somervell 1946
Applies by its own logic: 2 of its 2 conditions held here (it needs all of them), and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — the state's ending.
- territory shrank by 25% over the 100 y ending 25 y before — territory -95
- unrest, adverse regime change or atrocity within 100 y in the state, or a war the state is fighting, still under way, or a war the state fought, ended within 50 y, or battle within 50 y in the state — warEnded
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1540 – 1889, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1848, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q154849 (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.