State · 2150 – 1991 BCE

Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt

A state of 2150 – 1991 BCE — 159 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It followed Tenth Dynasty of Egypt. It was followed by Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt. 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: 159 years; 2150 BCE – 1991 BCE
Rulers: 4; the pharaoh

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.

Before it

Tenth Dynasty of Egypt · follows · 2050 – 2000 BCE

After it

Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt · followed by · 1991 – 1802 BCE

Rulers

The line of pharaoh.

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
Mentuhotep II	2055 BCE – 2004 BCE	51 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Neferu II	2050 BCE – 2050 BCE	under a year	ending not on record	sibling
Mentuhotep III	2010 BCE – 2001 BCE	9 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	nephew or niece
Mentuhotep IV	1997 BCE – 1991 BCE	6 years	ending not on record	child

4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 2055 BCE – 1991 BCE. Median reign 7.5 years. 1 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”.

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 stood159 years
stood longer than 56% 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 median9 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 31% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record4
has more rulers on record than 58% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 0 causes the record names and 1 result, 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.

linked

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

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 159

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 2166 BCE – 1975 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 2070 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 Q719634 (CC0) · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.