State · 331 – 92 BCE

Cyrenaica

A state of 331 – 92 BCE — 239 years in the Middle East and North Africa. The atlas records 1 thing within it — people 1. Its line of rulers holds 3 people.

Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 331 BCE to 92 BCE, and those are the years drawn here.

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

Stood: 239 years; 331 BCE – 92 BCE
Rulers: 3; the Queen regnant of Cyrenaica
Most ground: 116,400 km²; in 110 BCE
Within it: 1; recorded row

Map: Cyrenaica in 110 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Cyrenaica in 110 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 116,400 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.

Cyrenaica in 331 BCE, first 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.

Cyrenaica in 110 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.

Where it sits in time

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

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

ending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Magas of Cyrene	300 BCE – 276 BCE	24 years	ending not on record
Berenice II	258 BCE – 247 BCE	11 years	ending not on record	child
Demetrius the Fair	250 BCE – 249 BCE	1 year	ending not on record	spouse

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 300 BCE – 247 BCE. Median reign 11 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”.

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.

30,700 km² in 331 BCE, 116,400 km² in 92 BCE; at its largest 116,400 km² in 101 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.

400 BCE – 301 BCE1 row

Callimachus · writer · 306 – 240 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 stood239 years
stood longer than 67% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held116,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 48% 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.
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 record3
has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 355 BCE – 68 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 110 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 Q165198 (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.