State · 366 – 351 BCE

Thebes

A state of 366 – 351 BCE — 15 years in Europe. The atlas records 3 things within it — wars and battles 3.

Wikidata records a founding in 2001 BCE and no end; the borders dataset maps it from 366 BCE to 351 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: 15 years; 366 BCE – 351 BCE
Most ground: 34,100 km²; in 366 BCE
Within it: 3; recorded rows

Map: Thebes in 366 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Thebes in 366 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 34,100 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.

34,100 km² in 366 BCE, 34,100 km² in 351 BCE; at its largest 34,100 km² in 366 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 BCE3 rows · 3 wars and battles

Third Sacred War · war · 356 – 346 BCE
Battle of Crocus Field · battle · 353 BCE
Expansion of Macedonia under Philip II · war · 359 – 336 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 stood15 years
stood longer than 20% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held34,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 29% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century2.0
had more wars on record per century than 97% 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: 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.

coincidence

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, 376 BCE – 341 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 366 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 Q5760 (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.