Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1297 – present

Monaco

A state of 1297 – present — 729 years, still standing in Europe. It replaced Alpes-Maritimes. It was followed by Free Cities of Menton and Roquebrune. The atlas records 39 things within it — wars and battles 1 · unrest and atrocity 1 · famine and plague 1 · people 36. Its line of rulers holds 41 people, 6 with dated terms.

  • Still standing: the span runs to the year of the build, 2026.

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

Stood
729 years
and still standing
Rulers
41
the Prince of Monaco
Most ground
200 km²
in 1645
Within it
39
recorded rows
Symbols
2
on record, with years
Map: Monaco in 1645, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Monaco in 1645, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 200 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.
Monaco in 1645, at its largest

1645 · at its largest · 200 km²

Monaco in 1945, last mapped

1945 · last mapped · 100 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 BCE110002000Free Cities of Menton and Roquebrune: 1848 – 1861Monaco: 1297 – 2026

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

  • Alpes-Maritimes · replaces

After it

Rulers

The line of Prince of Monaco - the office this state names as its head of state.

Lucien, Lord of Monaco · 1505 – 1523 · killedCharles III of Monaco · 1856 – 1889 · died in office, manner not recordedAlbert I of Monaco · 1889 – 1922 · died in office, manner not recordedLouis II of Monaco · 1922 – 1949 · died in office, manner not recordedRainier III of Monaco · 1949 – 2005 · died in office of natural causesAlbert II of Monaco · 2005 – … · still in office1400160018002000
killed, executed or dead in battledied in officestill in office
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Lucien, Lord of Monaco1505 – 152318 yearskilledWikidata's manner of death
Charles III of Monaco1856 – 188933 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Albert I of Monaco1889 – 192233 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Louis II of Monaco1922 – 194927 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Rainier III of Monaco1949 – 200556 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of deathgrandchild
Albert II of Monaco2005 – in officein office since 2005still in officechild

41 rulers, 6 with terms dated as terms, covering 1505 – 2005. Median reign 33 years. 1 of 5 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.

1700180019002000

200 km² in 1647, 100 km² in 2022; at its largest 200 km² in 1647. 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 of Monaco
    coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of Monaco · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Flag of Monaco
    flag, from 1881Flag of Monaco · 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.

1200 – 1299: 2 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 2 other12001300 – 1399: 6 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 6 other13001400 – 1499: 5 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 5 other14001500 – 1599: 4 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 4 other15001600 – 1699: 6 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 6 other16001700 – 1799: 4 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 4 other17001800 – 1899: 4 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 4 other18001900 – 1999: 7 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 1 risings, regime changes and massacres, 5 other19002000 – 2099: 1 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other2000

1200 – 12992 rows

1300 – 13996 rows

1400 – 14995 rows

1500 – 15994 rows

1600 – 16996 rows

1700 – 17994 rows

1800 – 18994 rows

1900 – 19997 rows · 1 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres

2000 – 20991 row

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 stood729 years

    stood longer than 94% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held200 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 0% 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.

  • How long a reign lasted, at the median33 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 87% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record41

    has more rulers on record than 96% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q235 (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.