State · 350 – 338 BCE

Theban

A state of 350 – 338 BCE — 12 years in Europe. The atlas records 1 thing within it — wars and battles 1.

Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 350 BCE to 338 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: 12 years; 350 BCE – 338 BCE
Most ground: 5,200 km²; in 350 BCE
Within it: 1; recorded row

Map: Theban in 350 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Theban in 350 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 5,200 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.

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.

5,200 km² in 350 BCE, 5,200 km² in 338 BCE; at its largest 5,200 km² in 350 BCE. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

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.

400 BCE – 301 BCE1 row · 1 wars and battles

Battle of Chaeronea · battle · 338 BCE

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 stood12 years
stood longer than 19% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held5,200 km²
held more ground at its peak than 10% 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, 360 BCE – 328 BCE, 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 Q7777597 (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.