Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 282 – 133 BCE

Kingdom of Pergamon

A state of 282 – 133 BCE — 149 years in the Middle East and North Africa. The atlas records 4 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 3. Its line of rulers holds 7 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
149 years
282 BCE – 133 BCE
Rulers
7
the Basileus
Most ground
175,900 km²
in 164 BCE
Within it
4
recorded rows
Map: Kingdom of Pergamon in 164 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Kingdom of Pergamon in 164 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 175,900 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 Pergamon in 279 BCE, first mapped

279 BCE · first mapped · 7,500 km²

Kingdom of Pergamon in 164 BCE, at its largest

164 BCE · at its largest · 175,900 km²

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

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Kingdom of Pergamon: 282 BCE – 133 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.

Philetaerus · 282 BCE – 263 BCE · no death date to read the end againstEumenes I · 263 BCE – 241 BCE · no death date to read the end againstAttalus I · 241 BCE – 197 BCE · no death date to read the end againstEumenes II · 197 BCE – 159 BCE · no death date to read the end againstAttalus II Philadelphus · 160 BCE – 138 BCE · no death date to read the end againstAttalus III · 138 BCE – 133 BCE · no death date to read the end againstEumenes III · 133 BCE – 129 BCE · no death date to read the end against250 BCE200 BCE150 BCE
ending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Philetaerus282 BCE – 263 BCE19 yearsending not on record
Eumenes I263 BCE – 241 BCE22 yearsending not on recordchild
Attalus I241 BCE – 197 BCE44 yearsending not on recordchild
Eumenes II197 BCE – 159 BCE38 yearsending not on recordchild
Attalus II Philadelphus160 BCE – 138 BCE22 yearsending not on recordsibling
Attalus III138 BCE – 133 BCE5 yearsending not on recordnephew or niece
Eumenes III133 BCE – 129 BCE4 yearsending not on recordsibling

7 rulers, 7 with terms dated as terms, covering 282 BCE – 129 BCE. Median reign 22 years. 1 of 6 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 BCE200 BCE150 BCE

7,500 km² in 272 BCE, 175,900 km² in 133 BCE; at its largest 175,900 km² in 162 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 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other300 BCE200 BCE – 101 BCE: 4 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 3 other200 BCE

200 BCE – 101 BCE4 rows · 1 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 stood149 years

    stood longer than 55% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held175,900 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 56% 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 median22 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 68% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record7

    has more rulers on record than 73% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 0 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.

Kingdom of Pergamon · 282 BCE – 133 BCEKingdom of PergamonAristonicus uprising · Linked · 131 BCE – 129 BCEAristonicus uprising250 BCE200 BCE150 BCE
linked

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; 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 149

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q2022162 (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.