Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 701 – 135 BCE

Illyrian kingdom

A state of 701 – 135 BCE — 566 years in Europe. The atlas records 3 things within it — wars and battles 3. Its line of rulers holds 2 people.

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

Stood
566 years
701 BCE – 135 BCE
Rulers
2
the King
Most ground
49,700 km²
in 239 BCE
Within it
3
recorded rows
Symbol
1
on record, with years
Map: Illyrian kingdom in 239 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Illyrian kingdom in 239 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 49,700 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

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Illyrian kingdom: 701 BCE – 135 BCE

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

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

Bardylis · 358 BCE – 358 BCE · no death date to read the end againstGentius · 181 BCE – 168 BCE · no death date to read the end against700 BCE600 BCE500 BCE400 BCE300 BCE200 BCE
ending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Bardylis358 BCE – 358 BCEunder a yearending not on record
Gentius181 BCE – 168 BCE13 yearsending not on record

2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 358 BCE – 168 BCE. Median reign 6.5 years. 0 of 1 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.

250 BCE245 BCE240 BCE235 BCE230 BCE

29,600 km² in 251 BCE, 46,000 km² in 226 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 of Illyria
    coat of arms, undatedCoat of Arms of Illyria · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Shkodranci

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.

800 BCE – 701 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other800 BCE700 BCE – 601 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other700 BCE600 BCE – 501 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other600 BCE500 BCE – 401 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other500 BCE400 BCE – 301 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other400 BCE300 BCE – 201 BCE: 3 recorded — 3 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other300 BCE200 BCE – 101 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other200 BCE

300 BCE – 201 BCE3 rows · 3 wars and battles

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 stood566 years

    stood longer than 89% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held49,700 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 34% 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 median13 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 44% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record2

    has more rulers on record than 34% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q16084290 (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.