State · 189 – 12 BCE

Artaxiad dynasty

A state of 189 – 12 BCE — 177 years in the Middle East and North Africa. The atlas records 3 things within it — people 3. Its line of rulers holds 3 people.

Wikidata's English label: Artaxiad Dynasty.

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

Stood: 177 years; 189 BCE – 12 BCE
Rulers: 3; the king of Armenia
Within it: 3; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Where it sits in time

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

Rulers

The line of king of Armenia.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Tigranes the Great	95 BCE – 55 BCE	40 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Artavasdes II of Armenia	55 BCE – 34 BCE	21 years	executedWikidata's manner of death	child
Tigranes III	20 BCE – 8 BCE	12 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	child

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 95 BCE – 8 BCE. Median reign 21 years. 1 of 2 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”.

Flag or arms

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

coat of arms, undatedStandard of the Artaxiad dynasty · Public domain

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.

200 BCE – 101 BCE3 rows

Tigranes the Great · ruler · 140 – 55 BCE
Artavasdes II of Armenia · ruler · 101 – 34 BCE
Tigranes III · ruler · 101 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 stood177 years
stood longer than 59% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
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.
How long a reign lasted, at the median21 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 66% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause 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.

in the article

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 207 BCE – 6, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 100 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 Q597494 (CC0) · 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.