State · 1189 – 1077 BCE
Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt
A state of 1189 – 1077 BCE — 112 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It followed Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. It was followed by Twenty-first Dynasty of Egypt. Its line of rulers holds 10 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
- 112 years
- 1189 BCE – 1077 BCE
- Rulers
- 10
- the pharaoh
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.
Before it
- Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt · follows · 1292 – 1189 BCE
After it
- Twenty-first Dynasty of Egypt · followed by · 1077 – 943 BCE
Rulers
The line of pharaoh.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Setnakhte | 1190 BCE – 1186 BCE | 4 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Ramesses III | 1186 BCE – 1154 BCE | 32 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | child |
| Ramesses IV | 1154 BCE – 1148 BCE | 6 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | child |
| Ramesses V | 1148 BCE – 1143 BCE | 5 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | child |
| Ramesses VI | 1143 BCE – 1135 BCE | 8 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | |
| Ramesses VII | 1135 BCE – 1128 BCE | 7 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | child |
| Ramesses VIII | 1128 BCE – 1127 BCE | 1 year | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | |
| Ramesses IX | 1127 BCE – 1107 BCE | 20 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | nephew or niece |
| Ramesses X | 1107 BCE – 1103 BCE | 4 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | child |
| Ramesses XI | 1103 BCE – 1073 BCE | 30 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | child |
10 rulers, 10 with terms dated as terms, covering 1190 BCE – 1073 BCE. Median reign 6.5 years. 0 of 9 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”.
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 stood112 years
stood longer than 49% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- 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 median7 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 26% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record10
has more rulers on record than 80% 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 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.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Theories that apply to its ending
Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.
Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 112
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1200 BCE – 1066 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1133 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 Q583501 (CC0) · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.