State · 321 BCE – 17 CE

Kingdom of Cappadocia

A state of 321 BCE – 17 CE — 338 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It followed Cappadocia Satrapy. It was followed by Cappadocia. The atlas records 6 things within it — wars and battles 3 · people 3. Its line of rulers holds 10 people. Its own article says it was conquered.

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

Stood: 338 years; 321 BCE – 17
Rulers: 10; the King of Cappadocia
Most ground: 91,700 km²; in 126 BCE
Within it: 6; recorded rows

Map: Kingdom of Cappadocia in 126 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Kingdom of Cappadocia in 126 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 91,700 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.

Kingdom of Cappadocia in 239 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.

Kingdom of Cappadocia in 126 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.

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

Cappadocia Satrapy · follows

After it

Cappadocia · followed by

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.

In 17 AD, following the death of Archelaus, during the reign of Roman emperor Tiberius (14–37 AD), the kingdom was incorporated as a Roman province.

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

Rulers

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

killed, executed or dead in battleending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Ariarathes I of Cappadocia	331 BCE – 322 BCE	9 years	ending not on record
Ariaramnes of Cappadocia	280 BCE – 230 BCE	50 years	ending not on record
Ariarathes V of Cappadocia	163 BCE – 130 BCE	33 years	ending not on record
Ariarathes VI of Cappadocia	130 BCE – 116 BCE	14 years	ending not on record	child
Ariarathes IX of Cappadocia	100 BCE – 85 BCE	15 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Ariobarzanes I of Cappadocia	95 BCE – 63 BCE	32 years	ending not on record
Ariobarzanes II of Cappadocia	63 BCE – 62 BCE	1 year	ending not on record	child
Ariobarzanes III of Cappadocia	51 BCE – 42 BCE	9 years	ending not on record	child
Archelaus of Cappadocia	36 BCE – 36 BCE	under a year	ending not on record
Pythodoris of Pontus	8 BCE – 17	25 years	ending not on record	spouse

10 rulers, 10 with terms dated as terms, covering 331 BCE – 17. Median reign 14.5 years. 1 of 9 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.

67,900 km² in 221 BCE, 86,700 km² in 17; at its largest 91,700 km² in 121 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.

300 BCE – 201 BCE2 rows

Ariarathes VI of Cappadocia · ruler · 201 BCE
Ariarathes V of Cappadocia · politician · 201 BCE

100 BCE – 1 BCE3 rows · 3 wars and battles

Mithridatic Wars · war · 88 – 63 BCE
First Mithridatic War · war · 89 – 85 BCE
Third Mithridatic War · war · 73 – 63 BCE

0 – 991 row

Apollonius of Tyana · scientist · 15 – 100

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 stood338 years
stood longer than 76% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held91,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 43% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century0.9
had more wars on record per century than 92% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median15 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 49% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record10
has more rulers on record than 80% 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 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.

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

On the timeline, 355 BCE – 51, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 126 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 Q29654286 (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.