State · 1180 – 1918

Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont

A state of 1180 – 1918 — 738 years in Europe. It followed Holy Roman Empire. The atlas records 8 things within it — people 8. Its line of rulers holds 8 people.

Wikidata's English label: Principality of Waldeck.

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

Stood: 738 years; 1180 – 1918
Rulers: 8; the Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Most ground: 1,000 km²; in 1806
Within it: 8; recorded rows
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Map: Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont in 1806, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont in 1806, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 1,000 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, 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

Holy Roman Empire · follows · 962 – 1806

Rulers

The line of Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont.

died in officeleft alive by a regular road

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Friedrich Anton Ulrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont	1712 – 1728	16 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Prince Christian of Waldeck and Pyrmont	1728 – 1728	under a year	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont	1728 – 1763	35 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Friedrich Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont	1763 – 1812	49 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
George I of Waldeck and Pyrmont	1812 – 1813	1 year	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
George II of Waldeck and Pyrmont	1813 – 1845	32 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont	1845 – 1893	48 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	child
Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont	1893 – 1918	25 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child

8 rulers, 8 with terms dated as terms, covering 1712 – 1918. Median reign 28.5 years. 0 of 7 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.

900 km² in 1830, 900 km² in 1855. 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, undatedCoat of Arms of the Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Glasshouse with elements by Sodacan, Tom-L and katepanomegas
flag, undatedFlag of Waldeck before 1830 · 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.

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 stood738 years
stood longer than 94% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held1,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 3% 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 median32 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 86% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record8
has more rulers on record than 76% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 14 causes the record names and 0 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.

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

On the timeline, 1106 – 1992, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1806, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q165763 (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.