State · 401 BCE – 106 CE
Nabataean Kingdom
A state of 401 BCE – 106 CE — 507 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Qedarites. The atlas records 9 things within it — wars and battles 3 · people 6. Its line of rulers holds 10 people, 4 with dated terms.
- Wikidata's English label: Nabataean kingdom.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 507 years
- 401 BCE – 106
- Rulers
- 10
- the King of Nabatea
- Within it
- 9
- recorded rows
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
- Qedarites · replaces · 801 – 201 BCE
Rulers
The line of King of Nabatea.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rabbel I | 140 BCE – 111 BCE | 29 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Obodas I | 96 BCE – 85 BCE | 11 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Aretas III | 87 BCE – 62 BCE | 25 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | sibling |
| Aretas IV Philopatris | 9 BCE – 40 | 49 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone |
10 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 140 BCE – 40. Median reign 27 years. 1 of 3 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”.
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.
400 BCE – 301 BCE2 rows · 2 wars and battles
- Siege of Gaza · battle · 332 BCE
- Battle of Gaza · battle · 312 BCE
300 BCE – 201 BCE2 rows
- Aretas III · ruler · 201 – 101 BCE
- Aretas I · ruler · 201 BCE
200 BCE – 101 BCE4 rows · 1 wars and battles
- Aretas IV Philopatris · ruler · 101 – 61 BCE
- Obodas I · ruler · 102 – 81 BCE
- Battle of Elasa · battle · 160 BCE
- Rabbel I · ruler · 151 – 111 BCE
100 – 1991 row
- Rabbel II Soter · ruler · 100 – 106
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 stood507 years
stood longer than 87% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- 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 median29 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 81% 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 0 results, 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.
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, 452 BCE – 157, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 147 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 Q11029653 (CC0) · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.