State · 861 – 590 BCE

Urartu

A state of 861 – 590 BCE — 271 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It was replaced by Satrapy of Armenia. The atlas records 10 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 9. Its line of rulers holds 14 people, 13 with dated terms.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 271 years; 861 BCE – 590 BCE
Rulers: 14; the king of Urartu
Most ground: 161,400 km²; in 615 BCE
Within it: 10; recorded rows

Map: Urartu in 615 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Urartu in 615 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 161,400 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.

Urartu 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.

Urartu in 615 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.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

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

Satrapy of Armenia · replaced by

Rulers

The line of king of Urartu.

died in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Arame of Urartu	858 BCE – 844 BCE	14 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Lutipri	844 BCE – 834 BCE	10 years	ending not on record
Sarduri I	834 BCE – 828 BCE	6 years	ending not on record	child
Ishpuini of Urartu	828 BCE – 810 BCE	18 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Menua	810 BCE – 785 BCE	25 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	child
Argišti I	785 BCE – 763 BCE	22 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	child
Sarduri II	763 BCE – 735 BCE	28 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Rusa I	735 BCE – 714 BCE	21 years	died by suicideWikidata's manner of death	child
Argišti II	714 BCE – 680 BCE	34 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	child
Rusa II	680 BCE – 639 BCE	41 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Sarduri III	639 BCE – 635 BCE	4 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Rusa IV	629 BCE – 615 BCE	14 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Sarduri IV	615 BCE – 595 BCE	20 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	sibling

14 rulers, 13 with terms dated as terms, covering 858 BCE – 595 BCE. Median reign 20 years. 0 of 12 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.

53,100 km² in 791 BCE, 154,600 km² in 590 BCE; at its largest 161,400 km² in 611 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.

900 BCE – 801 BCE4 rows

Argišti I · ruler · 827 – 764 BCE
Sarduri II · ruler · 801 – 735 BCE
Argišti II · ruler · 801 – 685 BCE
Rusa II · ruler · 801 – 639 BCE

800 BCE – 701 BCE1 row · 1 wars and battles

Urartu–Assyria War · war · 714 BCE

700 BCE – 601 BCE2 rows

Rusa III · ruler · 651 – 585 BCE
Rusa IV · ruler · 651 – 585 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 stood271 years
stood longer than 71% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held161,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 55% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century0.4
had more wars on record per century than 90% 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 record14
has more rulers on record than 87% 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, 888 BCE – 563 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 615 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 Q185068 (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.