State · 801 BCE – 150 CE

Qataban

A state of 801 BCE – 150 CE — 951 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It was followed by Kingdom of Hadhramaut.

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

Stood: 951 years; 801 BCE – 150
Most ground: 12,000 km²; in 350 BCE

Map: Qataban in 350 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Qataban in 350 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 12,000 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.

Where it sits in time

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.

After it

Kingdom of Hadhramaut · followed by

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.

12,000 km² in 326 BCE, 11,700 km² in 76 BCE; at its largest 12,000 km² in 326 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 stood951 years
stood longer than 97% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held12,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 16% 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, 896 BCE – 245, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 350 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 Q748595 (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.