Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1531 – 1155 BCE

Kassites

A state of 1531 – 1155 BCE — 376 years. It followed Old Babylonian Empire. Its line of rulers holds 3 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
376 years
1531 BCE – 1155 BCE
Rulers
3
the King of Babylon

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Old Babylonian Empire: 1830 BCE – 1750 BCEKassites: 1531 BCE – 1155 BCE

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

Rulers

The line of King of Babylon.

Kadashman-Enlil I · 1374 BCE – 1360 BCE · the term ends after the recorded deathKurigalzu II · 1332 BCE – 1308 BCE · the term ends after the recorded deathAdad-shuma-iddina · 1222 BCE – 1217 BCE · died in office, manner not recorded1500 BCE1400 BCE1300 BCE1200 BCE
died in officeending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Kadashman-Enlil I1374 BCE – 1360 BCE14 yearsthe term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Kurigalzu II1332 BCE – 1308 BCE24 yearsthe term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Adad-shuma-iddina1222 BCE – 1217 BCE5 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1374 BCE – 1217 BCE. Median reign 14 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”.

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 stood376 years

    stood longer than 79% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • 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 median14 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 46% 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: 3 causes 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.

Old Babylonian Empire · Linked · 1830 BCE – 1750 BCEOld Babylonian EmpireBabylon · In the article · 1894 BCE · “Several suspected Kassite names are recorded in economic documents from the Ur III period (c. 2112–2004 BC) in southern Babylon, but their origin is ambiguous.”BabylonBabylonia · In the article · 1850 BCE · “Kassites were first reported in Babylonia in the 18th century BC, especially around the area of Sippar.”BabyloniaKassites · 1531 BCE – 1155 BCEKassites1800 BCE1600 BCE1400 BCE1200 BCE
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.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q243312 (CC0) · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.