State · 3100 – 2686 BCE
Early Dynastic Period of Egypt
A state of 3100 – 2686 BCE — 414 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It was followed by Old Kingdom of Egypt. Its line of rulers holds 39 people, 3 with dated terms.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 414 years
- 3100 BCE – 2686 BCE
- Rulers
- 39
- the pharaoh
- Most ground
- 93,400 km²
- in 3000 BCE
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
After it
- Old Kingdom of Egypt · followed by · 2707 – 2216 BCE
Rulers
The line of pharaoh.
40 terms are shared from [object Object].
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merneith · from the line of Ancient Egypt | 2961 BCE – 2961 BCE | under a year | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | |
| Anedjib · from the line of Ancient Egypt | 2930 BCE – 2920 BCE | 10 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | grandchild |
| Neferkara I · from the line of Ancient Egypt | 2750 BCE – 2748 BCE | 2 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | |
| Neferkara I · from the line of Ancient Egypt | 2724 BCE – 2719 BCE | 5 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone |
39 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 2961 BCE – 2719 BCE. Median reign 3.5 years. 0 of 3 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.
93,400 km² in 3000 BCE, 93,400 km² in 2686 BCE; at its largest 93,400 km² in 3000 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 stood414 years
stood longer than 82% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held93,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 44% 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 median5 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 18% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record39
has more rulers on record than 96% 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 5 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.
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, 3141 BCE – 2645 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 3000 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 Q187979 (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.