Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1036 – 1918

House of Ascania

A state of 1036 – 1918 — 882 years in Europe. The atlas records 6 things within it — wars and battles 3 · treaties 1 · people 2. 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
882 years
1036 – 1918
Rulers
1
the diocesan bishop
Most ground
34,800 km²
in 1431
Within it
6
recorded rows
Symbol
1
on record, with years
Map: House of Ascania in 1431, its borders in gold among its neighbours
House of Ascania in 1431, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 34,800 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 BCE110002000House of Ascania: 1036 – 1918

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

Rulers

The line of diocesan bishop.

Eric of Saxe-Lauenburg · 1508 – … · no end recorded1200140016001800
ending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Eric of Saxe-Lauenburg1508 – —no end recordedending not on record

1 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 1508 – 1508. 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.

1300135014001450

28,500 km² in 1261, 34,000 km² in 1486; at its largest 34,800 km² in 1436. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

  • Arms of the house of Anhalt (15th century)
    coat of arms, undatedArms of the house of Anhalt (15th century) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · MostEpic

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.

1000 – 1099: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other10001100 – 1199: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other11001200 – 1299: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other12001300 – 1399: 1 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other13001400 – 1499: 5 recorded — 2 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 3 other14001500 – 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: 0 recorded — 0 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: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1900

1300 – 13991 row · 1 wars and battles

1400 – 14995 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 stood882 years

    stood longer than 96% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held34,800 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 30% 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.

  • Rulers on record1

    has more rulers on record than 13% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q168352 (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.