Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1397 – 1523

Kalmar Union

A state of 1397 – 1523 — 126 years in Europe. It was replaced by Denmark–Norway. The atlas records 5 things within it — wars and battles 2 · unrest and atrocity 1 · people 2. 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
126 years
1397 – 1523
Rulers
2
the monarch
Most ground
1.28 million km²
in 1482
Within it
5
recorded rows
Symbol
1
on record, with years
Map: Kalmar Union in 1482, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Kalmar Union in 1482, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 1.28 million 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.
Kalmar Union in 1398, first mapped

1398 · first mapped · 516,700 km²

Kalmar Union in 1482, at its largest

1482 · at its largest · 1.28 million km²

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

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Denmark–Norway: 1536 – 1814Kalmar Union: 1397 – 1523

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.

After it

Rulers

The line of monarch.

RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before

2 rulers, 0 with terms dated as terms. 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.

142014401460148015001520

945,000 km² in 1407, 1.28 million km² in 1523; at its largest 1.28 million km² in 1487. 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.

  • Flag of the Kalmar Union
    flag, undatedFlag of the Kalmar Union · 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.

1300 – 1399: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other13001400 – 1499: 2 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other14001500 – 1599: 3 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 1 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other1500

1400 – 14992 rows · 1 wars and battles

1500 – 15993 rows · 1 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres

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 stood126 years

    stood longer than 51% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held1,278,100 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 87% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per century1.6

    had more wars on record per century than 97% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • 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: 0 causes the record names and 3 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.

Kalmar Union · 1397 – 1523Kalmar UnionDenmark–Norway · Linked · 1536 – 1814Denmark–Norway14001500160017001800
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 and 1 some of them; 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 126

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q62623 (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.