State · 279 – 127 BCE

Paphlagonia

A state of 279 – 127 BCE — 152 years in the Middle East and North Africa.

Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 279 BCE to 127 BCE, 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: 152 years; 279 BCE – 127 BCE
Most ground: 22,900 km²; in 279 BCE

Map: Paphlagonia in 279 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Paphlagonia in 279 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 22,900 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.

Where it sits in time

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

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.

22,900 km² in 279 BCE, 22,900 km² in 127 BCE; at its largest 22,900 km² in 279 BCE. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

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 stood152 years
stood longer than 56% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held22,900 km²
held more ground at its peak than 23% 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.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 152

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 294 BCE – 112 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 279 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 Q622032 (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.