State · 900 – 676 BCE

Phrygia

A state of 900 – 676 BCE — 224 years in the Middle East and North Africa. Its line of rulers holds 1 person.

Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 900 BCE to 676 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: 224 years; 900 BCE – 676 BCE
Rulers: 1; the Kings
Most ground: 187,900 km²; in 700 BCE

Map: Phrygia in 700 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Phrygia in 700 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 187,900 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.

Phrygia in 900 BCE, first 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.

Phrygia in 700 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.

Where it sits in time

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

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

ending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Midas	740 BCE – 675 BCE	65 years	ending not on record

1 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 740 BCE – 675 BCE. Median reign 65 years. 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.

29,500 km² in 900 BCE, 187,900 km² in 676 BCE; at its largest 187,900 km² in 700 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 stood224 years
stood longer than 66% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held187,900 km²
held more ground at its peak than 57% 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 median65 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 98% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record1
has more rulers on record than 13% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 922 BCE – 654 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 700 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 Q32579 (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.