Skip to content
Map of the Parthian Empire under Mithridates II
Original file by Ro4444, edited by me · CC BY-SA 4.0
Polity Middle East

Parthian Empire

246 BCE – 300 CE · 546 years

Iranian empire (247 BC – 224 AD)

See it on the timeline

Wikipedia

The opening of the article, and a way into the rest of it without leaving the site.

Parthian Empire on Wikipedia.

Read the article Open on Wikipedia ↗

How these dates were made

Real dates from Wikidata, checked against the atlas.

These are real dates: Parthian Empire's founding and dissolution are recorded in Wikidata, and accepted here only because they agree with the centuries the atlas independently drew it in. The atlas itself draws the world at 4 moments in time, not continuously. The strip below covers those snapshots — 1 BCE to 300 CE — which sits inside the fuller span above.

1 BCE 4 snapshots · 101 years unattested at the widest 300 CE
1 BCE100 CE200 CE300 CE

Elsewhere in Middle East at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

See the whole view

Landmark · Middle East

Abydos

5000 BCE – 30 BCE

Polity · Middle East

Himyarite Kingdom

109 BCE – 525 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Nile River Trade

3000 BCE – 30 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Syrian Wars (Ptolemaic–Seleucid)

274 BCE – 168 BCE

Landmark · Middle East

Palmyra

200 BCE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Saba

Attested 1500 BCE – 100 BCE

Trade route · Middle East

Egyptian Red Sea Trade

2500 BCE – 30 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Maccabean Revolt

167 BCE – 160 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 246 BCE and 300 CE.

200 BCE Palmyra 200 BCE Jerash 167 BCE Maccabean Revolt 150 BCE Qumran 120 BCE Ctesiphon 100 BCE Hegra (Mada'in Salih)

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Colosseum Landmark · Europe 80 CE – still standing Chorrera Polity · Americas 1500 BCE – 100 BCE Silk Road Trade route · East Asia 200 BCE – 1450 CE Warring States Period Conflict · East Asia 475 BCE – 221 BCE Yose ben Yoezer Figure · Judea 200 BCE – 161 BCE Temple of Artemis at Ephesus Landmark · Europe 550 BCE – 262 CE
Image credits5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons