State · 140 – 37 BCE

Hasmonean Judea

A state of 140 – 37 BCE — 103 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Hellenistic Palestine. It was replaced by Herodian kingdom. The atlas records 12 things within it — wars and battles 2 · people 10. Its line of rulers holds 64 people, 11 with dated terms.

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

Stood: 103 years; 140 BCE – 37 BCE
Rulers: 64; the High Priest of Israel
Most ground: 32,800 km²; in 77 BCE
Within it: 12; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Hasmonean Judea in 77 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Hasmonean Judea in 77 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 32,800 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.

Hasmonean Judea in 140 BCE, first mapped — 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.

Hasmonean Judea in 77 BCE, at its largest — 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

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

Hellenistic Palestine · replaces

After it

Herodian kingdom · replaced by · 37 – 4 BCE

Rulers

The line of High Priest of Israel - the office this state names as its head of state.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending 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
Jonathan Apphus	152 BCE – 143 BCE	9 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Simon Thassi	143 BCE – 134 BCE	9 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	sibling
John Hyrcanus	134 BCE – 104 BCE	30 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Aristobulus I	104 BCE – 103 BCE	1 year	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Alexander Jannaeus	103 BCE – 76 BCE	27 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Salome Alexandra	76 BCE – 67 BCE	9 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	spouse
Hyrcanus II	76 BCE – 66 BCE	10 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Aristobulus II	66 BCE – 63 BCE	3 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	sibling
Hyrcanus II	63 BCE – 40 BCE	23 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	sibling
Antigonus II Mattathias	40 BCE – 37 BCE	3 years	executedWikidata's manner of death	nephew or niece
Aristobulus III of Judea	36 BCE – 36 BCE	under a year	died by accidentWikidata's manner of death	nephew or niece
Ananel	36 BCE – 30 BCE	6 years	ending not on record

64 rulers, 11 with terms dated as terms, covering 152 BCE – 30 BCE. Median reign 9 years. 3 of 11 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.

5,700 km² in 140 BCE, 31,900 km² in 37 BCE; at its largest 32,800 km² in 70 BCE. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

coat of arms, undatedEmblem of the Hasmonean dynasty · CC0

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.

200 BCE – 101 BCE3 rows

Alexander Jannaeus · ruler · 127 – 76 BCE
Hyrcanus II · ruler · 110 – 30 BCE
Salome Alexandra · ruler · 140 – 67 BCE

100 BCE – 1 BCE5 rows · 2 wars and battles

Antigonus II Mattathias · ruler · 80 – 37 BCE
Aristobulus II · ruler · 100 – 49 BCE
Judas of Galilee · politician · 51 BCE – 50 CE
Siege of Jerusalem · battle · 63 BCE
Herod's siege of Jerusalem · battle · 37 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 stood103 years
stood longer than 47% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held32,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 29% 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 median9 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 31% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record64
has more rulers on record than 99% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 2 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.

in the articlelinked

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 103

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 150 BCE – 27 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 77 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 Q10359001 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.