State · 110 BCE – 525 CE

Himyar

A state of 110 BCE – 525 CE — 635 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Sheba and Himyarite. Its line of rulers holds 3 people. Its own article says it was conquered.

Wikidata's English label: Himyarite kingdom.

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

Stood: 635 years; 110 BCE – 525
Rulers: 3; the king
Most ground: 335,800 km²; in 66 BCE

Map: Himyar in 66 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Himyar in 66 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 335,800 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.

Himyar in 110 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.

Himyar in 66 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

Sheba · replaces · 1000 BCE – 275 CE
Himyarite · replaces

How it ended, as its article says

Conquered. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

Following a period of political decline and conflict, the kingdom fell to an Aksumite invasion in the early sixth century.

One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rulers

The line of king.

died in officeending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source
Shammar Yahri'sh	275 – 300	25 years	ending not on record
Abu Karib	375 – 440	65 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Dhu Nuwas	510 – 530	20 years	ending not on record

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 275 – 530. Median reign 25 years. 0 of 2 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.

73,300 km² in 110 BCE, 297,000 km² in 525; at its largest 335,800 km² in 60 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 stood635 years
stood longer than 91% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held335,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 67% 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 median25 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 75% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 0 results, 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, 174 BCE – 589, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 66 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 Q289577 (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.