State · 141 BCE – 222 CE
Characene
A state of 141 BCE – 222 CE — 363 years in the Middle East and North Africa. The atlas records 10 things within it — people 10. Its line of rulers holds 18 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
- 363 years
- 141 BCE – 222
- Rulers
- 18
- the King of Characene
- Within it
- 10
- recorded rows
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
The line of King of Characene.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|
18 rulers, 0 with terms dated as terms. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
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 BCE4 rows
- Tiraios II · ruler · 141 – 49 BCE
- Artabazos of Characene · ruler · 151 – 2 BCE
- Theonesios I of Characene · ruler · 101 BCE – 1 CE
- Attambelos I · ruler · 101 BCE
0 – 992 rows
- Pacorus II · ruler · 50 – 105
- Attambelos VII · ruler · 1 – 101
100 – 1991 row
- Orabazes II of Characene · ruler · 100 – 101
200 – 2991 row
- Maga of Characene · ruler · 200 – 300
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 stood363 years
stood longer than 79% 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.
- Rulers on record18
has more rulers on record than 90% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 177 BCE – 258, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 41, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q1062946 (CC0) · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.