State · 202 – 46 BCE

Kingdom of Numidia

A state of 202 – 46 BCE — 156 years in the Middle East and North Africa. The atlas records 10 things within it — wars and battles 5 · people 5. Its line of rulers holds 11 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: 156 years; 202 BCE – 46 BCE
Rulers: 11; the King of Numidia
Most ground: 307,200 km²; in 110 BCE
Within it: 10; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Kingdom of Numidia in 110 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Kingdom of Numidia in 110 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 307,200 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

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.

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
Masinissa	202 BCE – 148 BCE	54 years	ending not on record
Gulussa	148 BCE – 145 BCE	3 years	ending not on record	child
Mastanabal	148 BCE – 140 BCE	8 years	ending not on record	sibling
Micipsa	148 BCE – 118 BCE	30 years	ending not on record	sibling
Adherbal	118 BCE – 112 BCE	6 years	ending not on record	child
Jugurtha	118 BCE – 105 BCE	13 years	executed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Hiempsal II	88 BCE – 81 BCE	7 years	ending not on record	nephew or niece
Hiarbas of Numidia	81 BCE – 79 BCE	2 years	ending not on record	sibling
Masinissa II	81 BCE – 46 BCE	35 years	ending not on record
Juba I of Numidia	60 BCE – 46 BCE	14 years	ending not on record
Arabio	44 BCE – 40 BCE	4 years	ending not on record

11 rulers, 11 with terms dated as terms, covering 202 BCE – 40 BCE. Median reign 8 years. 6 of 10 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.

306,800 km² in 192 BCE, 125,900 km² in 52 BCE; at its largest 307,200 km² in 102 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.

coin, undatedMonnaie - Bronze, Incertain, Numidie, Massinissa - btv1b84804368 (2 of 2) · Public domain

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 BCE1 row

Micipsa · person · 201 – 118 BCE

200 BCE – 101 BCE4 rows · 3 wars and battles

Third Punic War · war · 149 – 146 BCE
Jugurtha · commander · 160 – 104 BCE
Jugurthine War · war · 111 – 105 BCE
Battle of the Muthul · battle · 108 BCE

100 BCE – 1 BCE4 rows · 2 wars and battles

Juba II · politician · 48 BCE – 23 CE
Juba I of Numidia · person · 85 – 46 BCE
Battle of Thapsus · battle · 46 BCE
Battle of Ruspina · battle · 46 BCE

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 stood156 years
stood longer than 56% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held307,200 km²
held more ground at its peak than 66% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century1.3
had more wars on record per century than 96% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median8 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 29% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record11
has more rulers on record than 83% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 45 causes 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 articlelinkedcoincidence

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending and 2 some of them; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 156

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 218 BCE – 30 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 110 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 Q102679 (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.