State · 271 – 226 BCE
Greek colonisation
A state of 271 – 226 BCE — 45 years in Europe. It was followed by Bosporan Kingdom. The atlas records 3 things within it — wars and battles 1 · natural disasters 1 · people 1.
- Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 271 BCE to 226 BCE, and those are the years drawn here.
- Wikidata's English label: Greek colonization.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 45 years
- 271 BCE – 226 BCE
- Most ground
- 82,500 km²
- in 247 BCE
- Within it
- 3
- recorded rows
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
- Bosporan Kingdom · followed by · 437 BCE – 370 CE
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.
73,900 km² in 271 BCE, 82,000 km² in 226 BCE; at its largest 82,500 km² in 246 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.
300 BCE – 201 BCE3 rows · 1 wars and battles
- Cleomenean War · war · 229 – 222 BCE
- Hieronymus of Syracuse · politician · 231 – 214 BCE
- 226 BC Rhodes earthquake · disaster · 226 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 stood45 years
stood longer than 32% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held82,500 km²
held more ground at its peak than 41% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century1.0
had more wars on record per century than 94% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
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.
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.
Demographic-structural breakdown
Goldstone 1991 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: 2 of its 3 conditions held here (it needs 2), and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — unrest, adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- famine, plague or disaster within 30 y in the state, or population up 25% over 50 y — prior
- a war the state is fighting, still under way, or a war the state fought, ended within 10 y — warOngoing
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 281 BCE – 216 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 247 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 Q828047 (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.