Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1291 – 1798

Old Swiss Confederacy

A state of 1291 – 1798 — 507 years in Europe. It followed Duchy of Swabia. It was replaced by Helvetic Republic. The atlas records 19 things within it — wars and battles 10 · treaties 1 · people 8.

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

Stood
507 years
1291 – 1798
Most ground
46,300 km²
in 1552
Within it
19
recorded rows
Symbols
2
on record, with years
Map: Old Swiss Confederacy in 1552, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Old Swiss Confederacy in 1552, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 46,300 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.
Old Swiss Confederacy in 1294, first mapped

1294 · first mapped · 3,000 km²

Old Swiss Confederacy in 1552, at its largest

1552 · at its largest · 46,300 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 BCE110002000Duchy of Swabia: 917 – 1313Helvetic Republic: 1798 – 1803Old Swiss Confederacy: 1291 – 1798

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

After it

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.

1400150016001700

3,000 km² in 1316, 39,200 km² in 1798; at its largest 46,200 km² in 1541. 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.

  • Early coat of arms of Switzerland
    coat of arms, undatedEarly coat of arms of Switzerland · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Samhanin
  • Early Swiss cross
    flag, undatedEarly Swiss cross · 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: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other12001300 – 1399: 3 recorded — 3 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: 2 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other15001600 – 1699: 1 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other16001700 – 1799: 8 recorded — 3 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 5 other1700

1300 – 13993 rows · 3 wars and battles

1400 – 14995 rows · 2 wars and battles

1500 – 15992 rows · 1 wars and battles

1600 – 16991 row · 1 wars and battles

1700 – 17998 rows · 3 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 stood507 years

    stood longer than 87% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held46,300 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 34% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per century0.8

    had more wars on record per century than 92% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 1 result, 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.

Duchy of Swabia · Linked · 950 – 1313Duchy of SwabiaOld Swiss Confederacy · 1291 – 1798Old Swiss ConfederacyHelvetic Republic · Linked · 1798 – 1803Helvetic Republic10001200140016001800
linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q435583 (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.