State · 164 BCE – 105 CE

Nabataeans

A state of 164 BCE – 105 CE — 269 years in the Middle East and North Africa. The atlas records 1 thing within it — people 1. Its own article says it was conquered by Roman Empire.

Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 164 BCE to 105, and those are the years drawn here.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 269 years; 164 BCE – 105
Most ground: 126,500 km²; in 126 BCE
Within it: 1; recorded row

Map: Nabataeans in 126 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Nabataeans in 126 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 126,500 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.

Nabataeans in 126 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.

Nabataeans in 6, last 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.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

How it ended, as its article says

Conquered by Roman Empire, 106. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

Described as fiercely independent by contemporary Greco-Roman accounts, the Nabataeans were annexed into the Roman Empire by Emperor Trajan in 106 AD.

One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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.

113,500 km² in 164 BCE, 91,000 km² in 105; at its largest 126,500 km² in 124 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.

200 BCE – 101 BCE1 row

Antipater the Idumaean · politician · 113 – 43 BCE

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 stood269 years
stood longer than 71% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held126,500 km²
held more ground at its peak than 50% 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.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 191 BCE – 132, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 126 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 Q220594 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.