State · 701 – 301 BCE

Avanti

A state of 701 – 301 BCE — 400 years in South Asia. Its line of rulers holds 4 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: 400 years; 701 BCE – 301 BCE
Rulers: 4; the king
Most ground: 5,100 km²; in 600 BCE

Map: Avanti in 600 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Avanti in 600 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 5,100 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.

Where it sits in time

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

Rulers

The line of king.

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before

4 rulers, 0 with terms dated as terms. 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.

5,100 km² in 576 BCE, 5,100 km² in 426 BCE; at its largest 5,100 km² in 576 BCE. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

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 stood400 years
stood longer than 81% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held5,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 10% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
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.
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, 741 BCE – 261 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 600 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 Q4827705 (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.