State · 1201 BCE – 600 CE
Ancient Greece
A state of 1201 BCE – 600 CE — 1,801 years in Europe. The atlas records 163 things within it — wars and battles 66 · unrest and atrocity 1 · natural disasters 2 · treaties 1 · people 92 · trade and piracy 1. Its line of rulers holds 4 people, 2 with dated terms.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 1,801 years
- 1201 BCE – 600
- Rulers
- 4
- the tyrant
- Most ground
- 206,300 km²
- in 164 BCE
- Within it
- 163
- recorded rows
800 BCE · first mapped · 58,500 km²
164 BCE · at its largest · 206,300 km²
78 · last mapped · 600 km²
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
The line of tyrant.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otto of Greece | 1832 BCE – 23 BCE | 1809 years | ending not on record | |
| Constantine II of Greece | 20 – 20 | under a year | ending not on record |
4 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1832 BCE – 20. Median reign 904.5 years. 0 of 1 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.
58,500 km² in 751 BCE, 23,800 km² in 49; at its largest 206,300 km² in 151 BCE. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
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.
800 BCE – 701 BCE3 rows · 2 wars and battles
- Tyrtaeus · writer · 701 BCE
- First Messenian War · war · 743 – 724 BCE
- Lelantine War · war · 710 – 650 BCE
700 BCE – 601 BCE17 rows · 2 wars and battles
- Thales of Miletus · philosopher · 626 – 543 BCE
- Sappho · artist · 651 – 568 BCE
- Solon · philosopher · 638 – 560 BCE
- Anaximander · scientist · 620 – 547 BCE
- Archilochus of Paros · writer · 688 – 645 BCE
- Hecataeus of Miletus · writer · 601 – 475 BCE
- Alcaeus of Mytilene · politician · 631 – 560 BCE
- Mimnermus · writer · 670 – 601 BCE
and 9 more in the atlas.
600 BCE – 501 BCE26 rows · 3 wars and battles
- Pythagoras · scientist · 571 – 496 BCE
- Aeschylus · writer · 525 – 456 BCE
- Parmenides · philosopher · 515 – 470 BCE
- Xenophanes · philosopher · 570 – 478 BCE
- Anaximenes of Miletus · scientist · 585 – 525 BCE
- Anacreon · writer · 570 – 485 BCE
- Simonides of Ceos · writer · 556 – 469 BCE
- Cleisthenes · politician · 570 – 501 BCE
and 18 more in the atlas.
500 BCE – 401 BCE64 rows · 26 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Plato · philosopher · 429 – 349 BCE
- Socrates · philosopher · 470 – 399 BCE
- Sophocles · philosopher · 496 – 406 BCE
- Euripides · philosopher · 485 – 405 BCE
- Aristophanes · writer · 448 – 386 BCE
- Thucydides · writer · 461 – 395 BCE
- Xenophon · philosopher · 431 – 354 BCE
- Diogenes of Sinope · philosopher · 403 – 323 BCE
and 56 more in the atlas.
400 BCE – 301 BCE34 rows · 17 wars and battles
- Aristotle · philosopher · 384 – 322 BCE
- Epicurus · philosopher · 342 – 270 BCE
- Demosthenes · politician · 384 – 322 BCE
- Menander · writer · 342 – 291 BCE
- Theophrastus · scientist · 371 – 287 BCE
- Aristarchus of Samos · scientist · 310 – 230 BCE
- Pytheas · explorer · 359 – 289 BCE
- Aeschines · philosopher · 390 – 322 BCE
and 26 more in the atlas.
300 BCE – 201 BCE7 rows · 6 wars and battles
- Archimedes · inventor · 287 – 211 BCE
- Battle of Sellasia · battle · 222 BCE
- Cretan War · war · 205 – 200 BCE
- Social War · war · 220 – 217 BCE
- Battle of Chios · battle · 201 BCE
- Siege of Sparta · battle · 272 BCE
- Lyttian War · war · 221 – 219 BCE
200 BCE – 101 BCE9 rows · 8 wars and battles
- Second Macedonian War · war · 200 – 197 BCE
- Battle of Cynoscephalae · battle · 197 BCE
- Roman–Seleucid war · war · 192 – 188 BCE
- Battle of Thermopylae · battle · 191 BCE
- War against Nabis · war · 195 BCE
- Eudoxus of Cyzicus · explorer · 150 – 100 BCE
- Battle of Callinicus · battle · 171 BCE
- Battle of Pydna · battle · 148 BCE
and 1 more in the atlas.
100 BCE – 1 BCE2 rows · 2 wars and battles
- Battle of Actium · battle · 31 BCE
- Battle of Dyrrhachium · battle · 48 BCE
300 – 3991 row
- 365 Crete earthquake · disaster · 365
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 stood1,801 years
stood longer than 99% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held206,300 km²
held more ground at its peak than 58% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century1.1
had more wars on record per century than 96% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median1,809 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 100% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record4
has more rulers on record than 58% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1381 BCE – 780, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 164 BCE, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q11772 (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.