THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 600–312 BCE

Soli

One of the city-kingdoms of Iron Age Cyprus, listed (with nine others) on the Prism of Esarhaddon (673 BCE) or attested on Persian-period coins; tributary in turn to Assyria (until 609), Egypt (c. 570–545 BCE) and the Achaemenids, but ruled by its own kings until Ptolemy I abolished the kingdoms in 312–310 BCE.

No ancient source gives the kingdoms' frontiers. Sources: Wikipedia 'Ancient history of Cyprus' and the city's article; Shepherd plate 5.

See Soli on the map in 600 BCE

On the map
600–312 BCE
Capital
Soli

Rulers named in the sources

States of the Middle East, 2400 BCE–1886

Among the smaller states of Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Arabia, Iran and the South Caucasus were Bronze and Iron Age kingdoms (Ebla, Mari, Yamhad, Kizzuwatna, Arzawa, Ugarit, Aram-Damascus, Ammon, Moab, Edom, Mannaea), the city-kingdoms of Cyprus, Characene, Elymais, Hatra, Kinda and Muhammad's state at Medina; the Caucasian kingdoms and emirates of the 9th–12th centuries (Tbilisi, Lori, Kakheti-Hereti, Syunik, Kars) and the dynasties of the 'Iranian intermezzo' (Sallarids, Rawwadids, Hasanwayhids, Kakuyids, Marwanids, Uqaylids, Mirdasids, Mazyadids, Ikhshidids); the Burids of Damascus, the Nizari Ismaili castles, the atabegs of Azerbaijan, Fars, Luristan and Kerman; the eastern Anatolian beyliks (Saltukids, Mengujekids, Shah-Armens, Artuqids, Eretnids, Kadi Burhan al-Din, Erzincan, Tacettin, Lâdik, Alaiye); the Mamluk pashas of Baghdad; Arabian states from the Sulayhids to the Jabrids, Bani Khalid, Kathiri, Mahra and Lahej; and the South Caucasus khanates of 1747–1828. Few pre-modern sources describe frontiers.

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