State · 1572 – 1787

Trịnh lords

A state of 1572 – 1787 — 215 years in East and Southeast Asia. Its line of rulers holds 1 person.

Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 1572 to 1787, and those are the years drawn here.

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

Stood: 215 years; 1572 – 1787
Rulers: 1; the Emperor (Hoàng đế)
Most ground: 158,800 km²; in 1775

Map: Trịnh lords in 1775, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Trịnh lords in 1775, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 158,800 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.

Trịnh lords in 1572, first mapped — 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.

Trịnh lords in 1775, at its largest — 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

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
Lê Chiêu Thống	1786 – 1788	2 years	ending not on record

1 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 1786 – 1788. Only 2 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.

46,000 km² in 1572, 113,600 km² in 1787; at its largest 113,700 km² in 1712. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

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 stood215 years
stood longer than 64% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held158,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 54% 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, 1550 – 1809, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1775, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q2267508 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.