Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1175 – 604 BCE

Philistia

A state of 1175 – 604 BCE — 571 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Canaan. The atlas records 1 thing within it — wars and battles 1.

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

Stood
571 years
1175 BCE – 604 BCE
Most ground
11,000 km²
in 1150 BCE
Within it
1
recorded row
Map: Philistia in 1150 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Philistia in 1150 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 11,000 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.
Philistia in 1150 BCE, at its largest

1150 BCE · at its largest · 11,000 km²

Philistia in 900 BCE, last mapped

900 BCE · last mapped · 3,200 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 BCE110002000Philistia: 1175 BCE – 604 BCE

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

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

  • Canaan · replaces

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.

1100 BCE1000 BCE900 BCE800 BCE

11,000 km² in 1150 BCE, 3,200 km² in 725 BCE; at its largest 11,000 km² in 1150 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: 1 recorded — 1 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 BCE

1100 BCE – 1001 BCE1 row · 1 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 stood571 years

    stood longer than 89% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held11,000 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 15% 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

Wikidata Q7185566 (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.