Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1200 – 546 BCE

Lydia

A state of 1200 – 546 BCE — 654 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It was followed by Achaemenid Empire. The atlas records 2 things within it — wars and battles 2. Its line of rulers holds 5 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
654 years
1200 BCE – 546 BCE
Rulers
5
the King of Lydia
Most ground
255,700 km²
in 600 BCE
Within it
2
recorded rows
Map: Lydia in 600 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Lydia in 600 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 255,700 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.
Lydia in 700 BCE, first mapped

700 BCE · first mapped · 24,000 km²

Lydia in 600 BCE, at its largest

600 BCE · at its largest · 255,700 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 BCE110002000Achaemenid Empire: 550 BCE – 330 BCELydia: 1200 BCE – 546 BCE

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

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.

After it

Rulers

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

Gyges of Lydia · 644 BCE – 644 BCE · killed, the article saysArdys II · 644 BCE – 637 BCE · no death date to read the end againstAlyattes of Lydia · 635 BCE – 585 BCE · no death date to read the end againstCroesus · 585 BCE – 546 BCE · no death date to read the end againstCyrus the Great · 547 BCE – 530 BCE · no death date to read the end against1200 BCE1000 BCE800 BCE600 BCE
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
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Gyges of Lydia644 BCE – 644 BCEunder a yearkilled, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Ardys II644 BCE – 637 BCE7 yearsending not on recordchild
Alyattes of Lydia635 BCE – 585 BCE50 yearsending not on recordgrandchild
Croesus585 BCE – 546 BCE39 yearsending not on recordchild
Cyrus the Great547 BCE – 530 BCE17 yearsending not on record

5 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 644 BCE – 530 BCE. Median reign 17 years. 2 of 4 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.

700 BCE650 BCE600 BCE550 BCE

24,000 km² in 700 BCE, 254,700 km² in 546 BCE; at its largest 255,700 km² in 600 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.

1200 BCE – 1101 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1200 BCE1100 BCE – 1001 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1100 BCE1000 BCE – 901 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1000 BCE900 BCE – 801 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other900 BCE800 BCE – 701 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other800 BCE700 BCE – 601 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other700 BCE600 BCE – 501 BCE: 2 recorded — 2 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other600 BCE

600 BCE – 501 BCE2 rows · 2 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 stood654 years

    stood longer than 92% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held255,700 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 63% 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 median17 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 54% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record5

    has more rulers on record than 64% 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.

Arzawa · In the article · 1650 BCE · “During the Late Bronze Age (1600 BC – 1200 BC), the territory that later became Lydia was part of a broader polity called Arzawa; in particular, Lydia would s…”ArzawaLydia · 1200 BCE – 546 BCELydiaAchaemenid Empire · Linked · 550 BCE – 330 BCEAchaemenid Empire1500 BCE1000 BCE500 BCE
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

Wikidata Q620765 (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.