Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 281 BCE – 62 CE

Kingdom of Pontus

A state of 281 BCE – 62 CE — 343 years in the Middle East and North Africa. The atlas records 12 things within it — wars and battles 8 · unrest and atrocity 1 · treaties 1 · people 2. Its line of rulers holds 16 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
343 years
281 BCE – 62
Rulers
16
the King of Pontus
Most ground
584,000 km²
in 87 BCE
Within it
12
recorded rows
Map: Kingdom of Pontus in 87 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Kingdom of Pontus in 87 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 584,000 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 Pontus in 281 BCE, first mapped

281 BCE · first mapped · 84,800 km²

Kingdom of Pontus in 87 BCE, at its largest

87 BCE · at its largest · 584,000 km²

Kingdom of Pontus in 23, last mapped

23 · last mapped · 80,600 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 Pontus: 281 BCE – 62

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.

Mithridates I of Pontus · 281 BCE – 266 BCE · no death date to read the end againstAriobarzanes of Pontus · 266 BCE – 250 BCE · no death date to read the end againstMithridates II of Pontus · 250 BCE – 220 BCE · no death date to read the end againstMithridates III of Pontus · 210 BCE – 190 BCE · no death date to read the end againstPharnaces I of Pontus · 190 BCE – 155 BCE · no death date to read the end againstLaodice · 162 BCE – 150 BCE · no death date to read the end againstMithridates IV of Pontus · 154 BCE – 150 BCE · no death date to read the end againstMithridates V Euergetes · 150 BCE – 120 BCE · no death date to read the end againstMithridates VI Eupator · 120 BCE – 63 BCE · no death date to read the end againstPharnaces II of Pontus · 63 BCE – 47 BCE · no death date to read the end againstDarius of Pontus · 47 BCE – 37 BCE · no death date to read the end againstArsaces of Pontus · 37 BCE – 37 BCE · no death date to read the end againstPolemon I of Pontus · 36 BCE – 8 BCE · no death date to read the end againstArchelaus of Cappadocia · 8 BCE – 8 BCE · no death date to read the end againstPythodoris of Pontus · 8 BCE – 38 · no death date to read the end againstPolemon II of Pontus · 38 – 62 · deposed, the article says200 BCE100 BCE1
deposed, abdicated, exiled or removedending 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
Mithridates I of Pontus281 BCE – 266 BCE15 yearsending not on record
Ariobarzanes of Pontus266 BCE – 250 BCE16 yearsending not on recordchild
Mithridates II of Pontus250 BCE – 220 BCE30 yearsending not on recordchild
Mithridates III of Pontus210 BCE – 190 BCE20 yearsending not on recordchild
Pharnaces I of Pontus190 BCE – 155 BCE35 yearsending not on recordchild
Laodice162 BCE – 150 BCE12 yearsending not on recordsibling
Mithridates IV of Pontus154 BCE – 150 BCE4 yearsending not on recordsibling
Mithridates V Euergetes150 BCE – 120 BCE30 yearsending not on record
Mithridates VI Eupator120 BCE – 63 BCE57 yearsending not on recordchild
Pharnaces II of Pontus63 BCE – 47 BCE16 yearsending not on recordchild
Darius of Pontus47 BCE – 37 BCE10 yearsending not on recordchild
Arsaces of Pontus37 BCE – 37 BCEunder a yearending not on recordsibling
Polemon I of Pontus36 BCE – 8 BCE28 yearsending not on record
Archelaus of Cappadocia8 BCE – 8 BCEunder a yearending not on record
Pythodoris of Pontus8 BCE – 3846 yearsending not on recordspouse
Polemon II of Pontus38 – 6224 yearsdeposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own articlegrandchild

16 rulers, 16 with terms dated as terms, covering 281 BCE – 62. Median reign 18 years. 2 of 15 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.

200 BCE100 BCE1

84,800 km² in 281 BCE, 80,600 km² in 62; at its largest 584,000 km² in 81 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: 1 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other200 BCE100 BCE – 1 BCE: 10 recorded — 8 wars and battles, 1 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other100 BCE0 – 99: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other0

200 BCE – 101 BCE1 row

100 BCE – 1 BCE10 rows · 8 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres

and 2 more in the atlas.

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 stood343 years

    stood longer than 77% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held584,000 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 76% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per century0.3

    had more wars on record per century than 90% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • How long a reign lasted, at the median20 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 62% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record16

    has more rulers on record than 89% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q7380487 (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.