State · 1163 – 1713

Principality of Orange

A state of 1163 – 1713 — 550 years in Europe. 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: 550 years; 1163 – 1713
Rulers: 1; the Prince of Orange
Most ground: 200 km²; in 1260
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Principality of Orange in 1260, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Principality of Orange in 1260, 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.

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.

ending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Bertrand I of Baux	1171 – 1185	14 years	ending not on record

1 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 1171 – 1185. Only 14 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 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.

200 km² in 1263, 100 km² in 1563; at its largest 200 km² in 1263. 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.

coat of arms, undatedBlason Raymond IV des Baux · CC BY 3.0

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 stood550 years
stood longer than 88% 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.
Rulers on record1
has more rulers on record than 13% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1108 – 1768, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1260, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q2281221 (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.