State · 2500 – 64 BCE
Phoenicia
A state of 2500 – 64 BCE — 2,436 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It followed Canaan. It was followed by Ancient Carthage. The atlas records 6 things within it — wars and battles 5 · people 1. Its line of rulers holds 2 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
- 2,436 years
- 2500 BCE – 64 BCE
- Rulers
- 2
- the Major kings of Phoenician cities
- Most ground
- 35,100 km²
- in 615 BCE
- Within it
- 6
- recorded rows
1150 BCE · first mapped · 12,400 km²
615 BCE · at its largest · 35,100 km²
530 BCE · last mapped · 22,300 km²
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
- Canaan · follows
After it
- Ancient Carthage · followed by · 814 – 146 BCE
Rulers
Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hiram I | 969 BCE – 936 BCE | 33 years | ending not on record | |
| Pygmalion of Tyre | 820 BCE – 774 BCE | 46 years | ending not on record |
2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 969 BCE – 774 BCE. Median reign 39.5 years. 0 of 1 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.
12,400 km² in 1150 BCE, 35,100 km² in 550 BCE; at its largest 35,100 km² in 600 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.
1500 BCE – 1401 BCE1 row · 1 wars and battles
- Battle of Megiddo · battle · 1457 BCE
1000 BCE – 901 BCE1 row
- Hiram I · person · 1000 – 935 BCE
900 BCE – 801 BCE1 row · 1 wars and battles
- Battle of Qarqar · battle · 853 BCE
700 BCE – 601 BCE2 rows · 2 wars and battles
- Battle of Carchemish · battle · 605 BCE
- Battle of Hamath · battle · 605 BCE
400 BCE – 301 BCE1 row · 1 wars and battles
- Siege of Tyre · battle · 332 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 stood2,436 years
stood longer than 100% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held35,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 30% 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 median46 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 93% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record2
has more rulers on record than 34% 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, 2744 BCE – 180, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 615 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 Q41642 (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.