State · 220 – 638
Ghassanids
A state of 220 – 638 — 418 years in the Middle East and North Africa. The atlas records 3 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 2. Its line of rulers holds 4 people. Its own article says it was dissolved by its 15 member tribes with.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 418 years
- 220 – 638
- Rulers
- 4
- the king
- Most ground
- 265,300 km²
- in 510
- Within it
- 3
- recorded rows
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
How it ended, as its article says
Dissolved by its 15 member tribes with. Read from the article's section “History - The "Dissolution" period under Maurice (582–585 AD)” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.
The confederation was dissolved into its 15 member tribes, with the tribe of Ghassan losing sway over a once large confederation of loyal tribes.
One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rulers
The line of king.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jafnah I ibn Amr | 220 – 265 | 45 years | ending not on record | |
| Al-Harith ibn Jabalah | 529 – 569 | 40 years | ending not on record | |
| Al-Mundhir III ibn al-Harith | 569 – 581 | 12 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | child |
| Jabalah ibn al-Aiham | 632 – 638 | 6 years | ending not on record |
4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 220 – 638. Median reign 26 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.
265,300 km² in 520, 265,300 km² in 595; at its largest 265,300 km² in 520. 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.
500 – 5992 rows
- Al-Harith ibn Jabalah · ruler · 501 – 569
- Al-Mundhir III ibn al-Harith · ruler · 550 – 602
600 – 6991 row · 1 wars and battles
- Heraclius' Anatolian campaign · battle · 622
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 stood418 years
stood longer than 82% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held265,300 km²
held more ground at its peak than 64% 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 median40 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 91% 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.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 178 – 680, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 510, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q733668 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.