State · 1000 BCE – 275 CE

Sheba

A state of 1000 BCE – 275 CE — 1,275 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It was replaced by Himyar. 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: 1,275 years; 1000 BCE – 275
Rulers: 3; the Mukarrib
Most ground: 64,700 km²; in 154
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Sheba in 154, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Sheba in 154, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 64,700 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.

Sheba in 800 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.

Sheba in 154, 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, 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.

After it

Himyar · replaced by · 110 BCE – 525 CE

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
Yitha'amar Watar I.	730 BCE – 710 BCE	20 years	ending not on record
Karib'il Watar I.	620 BCE – 600 BCE	20 years	ending not on record
Ilasaros	120 – 130	10 years	ending not on record

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 730 BCE – 130. Median reign 20 years. 0 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.

15,100 km² in 800 BCE, 64,700 km² in 275; at its largest 64,700 km² in 200. 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.

coat of arms, undatedSabaen kingdom’s coat of arms (cropped) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cwbi.nsa

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 stood1,275 years
stood longer than 98% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held64,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 37% 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 median20 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 62% 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: 0 causes the record names and 1 result, 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.

linked

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, 1128 BCE – 403, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 154, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q216068 (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.