The larger of the two Mecklenburg duchies on the Baltic plain, agrarian and aristocratic, created by the 1701 dynastic partition of Mecklenburg.
Raised to a grand duchy at the Congress of Vienna in 1815; the grand duchy lasted to the German revolution of 1918.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin — the shape you scrub through changes in 1701 · 1792 · 1808.
Broad imperial context for the north-German duchies.