State · 1520 – 1695
Mecklenburg-Güstrow
A state of 1520 – 1695 — 175 years in Europe. 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
- 175 years
- 1520 – 1695
- Rulers
- 4
- the Duke
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albrecht VII, Duke of Mecklenburg | 1520 – 1547 | 27 years | ending not on record | |
| Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg | 1556 – 1603 | 47 years | ending not on record | child |
| Albrecht von Wallenstein | 1628 – 1631 | 3 years | killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow | 1636 – 1695 | 59 years | ending not on record |
4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1520 – 1695. Median reign 37 years. 1 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”.
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, undatedWappen Mecklenburg-Güstrow · Public domain 
flag, undatedFlagge Großherzogtümer Mecklenburg · Public domain
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 stood175 years
stood longer than 59% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- 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 median47 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 94% 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.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1502 – 1713, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1608, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q552822 (CC0) · 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.