State · 37 – 4 BCE
Herodian kingdom
A state of 37 – 4 BCE — 33 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Hasmonean Judea. It was replaced by Herodian tetrarchy. The atlas records 1 thing within it — people 1. Its line of rulers holds 1 person. Its own article says it was partitioned by his sons into the Herodian.
- Wikidata's English label: Herodian Kingdom of Judea.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 33 years
- 37 BCE – 4 BCE
- Rulers
- 1
- the head of state
- Most ground
- 32,000 km²
- in 36 BCE
- Within it
- 1
- recorded row
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
- Hasmonean Judea · replaces · 140 – 37 BCE
After it
- Herodian tetrarchy · replaced by · 4 BCE – 44 CE
How it ended, as its article says
Partitioned by his sons into the Herodian. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.
When Herod died, the kingdom was divided among his sons into the Herodian tetrarchy.
One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rulers
The line of head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Herod the Great | 37 BCE – — | no end recorded | ending not on record |
1 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 37 BCE – 37 BCE. 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.
32,000 km² in 32 BCE, 31,900 km² in 4 BCE; at its largest 32,000 km² in 32 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.
100 BCE – 1 BCE1 row
- Herod the Great · ruler · 74 – 4 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 stood33 years
stood longer than 27% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held32,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 28% 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.
- Rulers on record1
has more rulers on record than 13% 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.
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, 47 BCE – 6, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 36 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 Q16000109 (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.