State · 301 BCE – 698 CE

Mauretania

A state of 301 BCE – 698 CE — 999 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It followed Ancient Carthage. It was replaced by Mauretania Tingitana and Mauretania Caesariensis. The atlas records 4 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 3. Its line of rulers holds 10 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: 999 years; 301 BCE – 698
Rulers: 10; the King of Mauretania
Most ground: 215,300 km²; in 27 BCE
Within it: 4; recorded rows

Map: Mauretania in 27 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Mauretania in 27 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 215,300 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.

Mauretania in 212 BCE, first mapped — 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.

Mauretania in 27 BCE, at its largest — 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

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.

Before it

Ancient Carthage · follows · 814 – 146 BCE

After it

Mauretania Tingitana · replaced by
Mauretania Caesariensis · replaced by

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
Baga	225 BCE – 225 BCE	under a year	ending not on record
Bocchus I	110 BCE – 80 BCE	30 years	ending not on record	another recorded relative
Mastanesosus	80 BCE – 49 BCE	31 years	ending not on record	child
Bogud	49 BCE – 38 BCE	11 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child
Bocchus II	49 BCE – 33 BCE	16 years	ending not on record	sibling
Cleopatra Selene II	25 BCE – 5 BCE	20 years	ending not on record
Juba II	25 BCE – 23	48 years	ending not on record	spouse
Ptolemy of Mauretania	21 – 40	19 years	ending not on record	child
Aedemon	40 – 42	2 years	ending not on record
Sabalus	42 – 44	2 years	ending not on record

10 rulers, 10 with terms dated as terms, covering 225 BCE – 44. Median reign 17.5 years. 3 of 9 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.

51,300 km² in 201 BCE, 215,300 km² in 24; at its largest 215,300 km² in 26 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 BCE2 rows · 1 wars and battles

Bocchus I · ruler · 201 – 101 BCE
Battle of the Upper Baetis · battle · 211 BCE

100 BCE – 1 BCE1 row

Ptolemy of Mauretania · politician · 9 BCE – 40 CE

0 – 991 row

Drusilla of Mauretania · person · 38 – 79

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 stood999 years
stood longer than 97% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held215,300 km²
held more ground at its peak than 60% 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 median19 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 59% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record10
has more rulers on record than 80% 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.

linked

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

On the timeline, 401 BCE – 798, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 27 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 Q309272 (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.