United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg

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.

1 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 1539 – 1592. Median reign 53 years. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

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 stood93 years

  stood longer than 45% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

• Wars recorded per centurynone

  had more wars on record per century than 43% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

• How long a reign lasted, at the median53 years

  had longer reigns, at the median, than 97% of 1,083 states whose dated line can carry a median.

• Rulers on record1

  has more rulers on record than 12% of 2,060 states with a line of rulers.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

• Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling

  Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009

  Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.

  • the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 93