State · 1450 – 1782

Haudenosaunee

A state of 1450 – 1782 — 332 years in the Americas and Oceania. The atlas records 2 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 1.

Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 1450 to 1782, and those are the years drawn here.
Wikidata's English label: Iroquois.

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

Stood: 332 years; 1450 – 1782
Most ground: 569,600 km²; in 1683
Within it: 2; recorded rows
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Map: Haudenosaunee in 1683, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Haudenosaunee in 1683, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 569,600 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.

Haudenosaunee in 1450, first mapped — 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.

Haudenosaunee in 1683, at its largest — 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

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

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.

72,100 km² in 1450, 15,000 km² in 1782; at its largest 532,400 km² in 1700. 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, undatedHaudenosaunee seal · Public domain
flag, undatedFlag of the Iroquois Confederacy · 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.

1700 – 17992 rows · 1 wars and battles

Joseph Brant · politician · 1742 – 1807
Battle of Fort Bull · battle · 1756

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 stood332 years
stood longer than 76% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held569,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 76% 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.

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 -45
- 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 — prior

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1417 – 1815, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1683, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q68518 (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.