State · 188 BCE – 1249 CE

Rhodes

A state of 188 BCE – 1249 CE — 1,437 years in the Middle East and North Africa. The atlas records 2 things within it — wars and battles 2.

Wikidata records a founding in 1601 BCE and no end; the borders dataset maps it from 188 BCE to 1249, 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: 1,437 years; 188 BCE – 1249
Most ground: 25,800 km²; in 188 BCE
Within it: 2; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Rhodes in 188 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Rhodes in 188 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 25,800 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.

Rhodes in 188 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.

Rhodes in 1206, last 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.

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.

25,800 km² in 188 BCE, 2,200 km² in 1249; at its largest 25,800 km² in 188 BCE. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedFlag of Rhodes Island · Public domain

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.

600 – 6991 row · 1 wars and battles

Battle of the Masts · battle · 655

1200 – 12991 row · 1 wars and battles

Genoese occupation of Rhodes · battle · 1248 – 1250

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 stood1,437 years
stood longer than 99% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held25,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 25% 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.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 16 causes 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.

in the articlelinkedcoincidence

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, 332 BCE – 1393, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 188 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 Q43048 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.