State · 306 – 168 BCE

Antigonid dynasty

A state of 306 – 168 BCE — 138 years in Europe. The atlas records 6 things within it — wars and battles 4 · people 2. Its line of rulers holds 6 people.

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

Stood: 138 years; 306 BCE – 168 BCE
Rulers: 6; the king of Macedonia
Most ground: 137,500 km²; in 277 BCE
Within it: 6; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Antigonid dynasty in 277 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Antigonid dynasty in 277 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 137,500 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.

Antigonid dynasty in 277 BCE, 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.

Antigonid dynasty in 170 BCE, last 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.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

The line of king of Macedonia.

died in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Demetrius I Poliorcetes	294 BCE – 288 BCE	6 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Antigonus II Gonatas	277 BCE – 239 BCE	38 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	child
Demetrius II Aetolicus	239 BCE – 229 BCE	10 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Antigonus III Doson	229 BCE – 221 BCE	8 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death
Philip V of Macedon	221 BCE – 179 BCE	42 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Perseus of Macedon	179 BCE – 168 BCE	11 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child

6 rulers, 6 with terms dated as terms, covering 294 BCE – 168 BCE. Median reign 10.5 years. 0 of 5 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.

127,800 km² in 286 BCE, 43,400 km² in 168 BCE; at its largest 137,500 km² in 276 BCE. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

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

coin, undatedPerseus of Macedonia Tetradrachm 90060057 · CC BY-SA 2.5 · CNG

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.

300 BCE – 201 BCE5 rows · 3 wars and battles

Philopoemen · politician · 253 – 183 BCE
Aratus of Sicyon · commander · 271 – 213 BCE
Chremonidean War · war · 267 – 261 BCE
Battle of Thermopylae · battle · 279 BCE
First Battle of Lamia · battle · 209 BCE

200 BCE – 101 BCE1 row · 1 wars and battles

Battle of Pydna · battle · 168 BCE

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 stood138 years
stood longer than 54% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held137,500 km²
held more ground at its peak than 52% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century0.7
had more wars on record per century than 92% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median11 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 38% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record6
has more rulers on record than 69% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 7 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.

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 138

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 320 BCE – 154 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 277 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 Q237325 (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.