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State · 163 BCE – 72 CE

Kingdom of Commagene

A state of 163 BCE – 72 CE — 235 years in the Middle East and North Africa. The atlas records 2 things within it — people 2. Its line of rulers holds 8 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
235 years
163 BCE – 72
Rulers
8
the King of Commagene
Most ground
9,800 km²
in 43
Within it
2
recorded rows
Map: Kingdom of Commagene in 43, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Kingdom of Commagene in 43, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 9,800 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.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Kingdom of Commagene: 163 BCE – 72

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.

Ptolemaeus of Commagene · 163 BCE – 130 BCE · no death date to read the end againstSames II Theosebes Dikaios · 130 BCE – 109 BCE · no death date to read the end againstMithridates I Callinicus · 109 BCE – 70 BCE · no death date to read the end againstAntiochus I of Commagene · 70 BCE – 31 BCE · no death date to read the end againstMithridates II of Commagene · 31 BCE – 20 BCE · no death date to read the end againstMithridates III of Commagene · 20 BCE – 12 BCE · no death date to read the end againstAntiochus III of Commagene · 12 BCE – 17 · no death date to read the end againstAntiochus IV of Commagene · 38 – 72 · no death date to read the end against150 BCE100 BCE50 BCE150
ending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Ptolemaeus of Commagene163 BCE – 130 BCE33 yearsending not on record
Sames II Theosebes Dikaios130 BCE – 109 BCE21 yearsending not on recordchild
Mithridates I Callinicus109 BCE – 70 BCE39 yearsending not on recordchild
Antiochus I of Commagene70 BCE – 31 BCE39 yearsending not on recordchild
Mithridates II of Commagene31 BCE – 20 BCE11 yearsending not on recordchild
Mithridates III of Commagene20 BCE – 12 BCE8 yearsending not on recordchild
Antiochus III of Commagene12 BCE – 1729 yearsending not on recordchild
Antiochus IV of Commagene38 – 7234 yearsending not on recordchild

8 rulers, 8 with terms dated as terms, covering 163 BCE – 72. Median reign 31 years. 0 of 7 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.

50 BCE150

9,600 km² in 63 BCE, 9,800 km² in 72; at its largest 9,800 km² in 47. 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.

200 BCE – 101 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other200 BCE100 BCE – 1 BCE: 1 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other100 BCE0 – 99: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other0

100 BCE – 1 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 stood235 years

    stood longer than 67% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held9,800 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 14% 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 median33 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 87% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record8

    has more rulers on record than 76% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 2 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.

Antiochus IV Epiphanes · In the article · 215 BCE · “This situation lasted until c. 163 BC, when the local satrap, Ptolemaeus of Commagene, established himself as an independent ruler following the death of the …”Antiochus IV EpiphanesPtolemaeus of Commagene · Coincidence · 250 BCE – 130 BCEPtolemaeus of CommageneKingdom of Commagene · 163 BCE – 72Kingdom of Commagene200 BCE100 BCE1
in the articlecoincidence

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 Q332137 (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.