State · 700 – 201 BCE

Scythians

A state of 700 – 201 BCE — 499 years in Europe. Its line of rulers holds 3 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: 499 years; 700 BCE – 201 BCE
Rulers: 3; the King
Most ground: 1.68 million km²; in 650 BCE

Map: Scythians in 650 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Scythians in 650 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 1.68 million 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.

Scythians in 650 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.

Scythians in 350 BCE, 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.

Rulers

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

killed, executed or dead in battleending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source
Ishpaka	679 BCE – 679 BCE	under a year	ending not on record
Madyes	625 BCE – 625 BCE	under a year	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Ateas	339 BCE – 339 BCE	under a year	ending not on record

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 679 BCE – 339 BCE. Median reign 0 years. 1 of 2 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.

1.68 million km² in 650 BCE, 364,400 km² in 225 BCE; at its largest 1.68 million km² in 650 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 stood499 years
stood longer than 86% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held1,683,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 90% 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 median0 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 1% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% 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.

in the article

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, 750 BCE – 151 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 650 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 Q131802 (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.