Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 750 – 265 BCE

Etruscan civilization

A state of 750 – 265 BCE — 485 years in Europe. The atlas records 3 things within it — wars and battles 3.

  • Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 750 BCE to 265 BCE, and those are the years drawn here.
  • Wikidata's English label: Etruscans.

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

Stood
485 years
750 BCE – 265 BCE
Most ground
65,700 km²
in 530 BCE
Within it
3
recorded rows
Map: Etruscan civilization in 530 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Etruscan civilization in 530 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 65,700 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.
Etruscan civilization in 750 BCE, first mapped

750 BCE · first mapped · 42,500 km²

Etruscan civilization in 530 BCE, at its largest

530 BCE · at its largest · 65,700 km²

Etruscan civilization in 291 BCE, last mapped

291 BCE · last mapped · 30,500 km²

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

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Etruscan civilization: 750 BCE – 265 BCE

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

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.

700 BCE600 BCE500 BCE400 BCE300 BCE

42,500 km² in 750 BCE, 30,500 km² in 265 BCE; at its largest 65,700 km² in 525 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.

800 BCE – 701 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other800 BCE700 BCE – 601 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other700 BCE600 BCE – 501 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other600 BCE500 BCE – 401 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other500 BCE400 BCE – 301 BCE: 1 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other400 BCE300 BCE – 201 BCE: 2 recorded — 2 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other300 BCE

400 BCE – 301 BCE1 row · 1 wars and battles

300 BCE – 201 BCE2 rows · 2 wars and battles

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 stood485 years

    stood longer than 85% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held65,700 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 38% 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.

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.

  • Challenge, failed response and dissolution

    Toynbee 1934 · Toynbee & Somervell 1946

    Applies by its own logic: 2 of its 2 conditions held here (it needs all of them), and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — the state's ending.

    • territory shrank by 25% over the 100 y ending 25 y before — territory -53
    • unrest, adverse regime change or atrocity within 100 y in the state, or a war the state is fighting, still under way, or a war the state fought, ended within 50 y, or battle within 50 y in the state — prior

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q17161 (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.