Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 3400 – 1761 BCE

History of Sumer

A state of 3400 – 1761 BCE — 1,639 years in the Middle East and North Africa. The atlas records 1 thing within it — people 1.

  • Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 3400 BCE to 1761 BCE, and those are the years drawn here.
  • Wikidata's English label: history of Sumer.

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

Stood
1,639 years
3400 BCE – 1761 BCE
Most ground
106,600 km²
in 2500 BCE
Within it
1
recorded row
Map: History of Sumer in 2500 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours
History of Sumer in 2500 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 106,600 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.
History of Sumer in 3400 BCE, first mapped

3400 BCE · first mapped · 22,000 km²

History of Sumer in 2500 BCE, at its largest

2500 BCE · at its largest · 106,600 km²

History of Sumer in 1800 BCE, last mapped

1800 BCE · last mapped · 48,500 km²

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

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000History of Sumer: 3400 BCE – 1761 BCE

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

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.

3000 BCE2500 BCE2000 BCE

22,000 km² in 3400 BCE, 48,500 km² in 1761 BCE; at its largest 106,600 km² in 2500 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.

3400 BCE – 3301 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other3400 BCE3300 BCE – 3201 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other3200 BCE – 3101 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other3200 BCE3100 BCE – 3001 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other3000 BCE – 2901 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other3000 BCE2900 BCE – 2801 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other2800 BCE – 2701 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other2800 BCE2700 BCE – 2601 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other2600 BCE – 2501 BCE: 1 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other2600 BCE2500 BCE – 2401 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other2400 BCE – 2301 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other2400 BCE2300 BCE – 2201 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other2200 BCE – 2101 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other2200 BCE2100 BCE – 2001 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other2000 BCE – 1901 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other2000 BCE1900 BCE – 1801 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1800 BCE – 1701 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1800 BCE

2600 BCE – 2501 BCE1 row

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 stood1,639 years

    stood longer than 99% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held106,600 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 47% 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.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q2345840 (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.