State · 1101 – 851 BCE

Greek Dark Ages

A state of 1101 – 851 BCE — 250 years in Europe. It followed Mycenaean Greece. It was followed by Archaic Greece.

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

Stood: 250 years; 1101 BCE – 851 BCE
Most ground: 60,700 km²; in 1000 BCE

Map: Greek Dark Ages in 1000 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Greek Dark Ages in 1000 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 60,700 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.

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

Mycenaean Greece · follows · 1600 – 1100 BCE

After it

Archaic Greece · followed by

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.

49,200 km² in 1091 BCE, 60,700 km² in 851 BCE; at its largest 60,700 km² in 991 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 stood250 years
stood longer than 69% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held60,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 36% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 43% 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: 1 cause 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.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1126 BCE – 826 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1000 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 Q210443 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-07 · Pastlas v2.13.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.