ancient kingdom
C4291
concept
An ancient kingdom is a historically early, centralized state ruled by a monarch, characterized by hierarchical social structures, distinct cultural traditions, and control over defined territories.
Observed surface forms (15)
- Hellenistic kingdom ×7
- Iron Age polity ×3
- Hellenistic state ×2
- Greco-Scythian state ×1
- Iron Age state ×1
- Levantine kingdom ×1
- Near Eastern polity ×1
- Nubian state ×1
- Warring States period kingdom ×1
- ancient Iranian state ×1
- ancient Japanese political entity ×1
- ancient Mesopotamian kingdom ×1
- ancient monarchy ×1
- barbarian kingdom ×1
- early Japanese state ×1
Instances (27)
- Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy)
- Ptolemaic Kingdom via concept surface "Hellenistic kingdom"
- State of Chu via concept surface "Warring States period kingdom"
- Ancient Israel
- Assyria via concept surface "ancient Mesopotamian kingdom"
- Kingdom of Urartu
- Nabataean kingdom
- Kingdom of Meroë
- Vandal Kingdom via concept surface "barbarian kingdom"
- Numidia
- Mauretania (ancient kingdom)
- Noricum
- Yamato polity via concept surface "early Japanese state"
- Bithynia via concept surface "Hellenistic kingdom"
- Median Empire via concept surface "ancient Iranian state"
- Lydian Kingdom
- Kingdom of Pontus via concept surface "Hellenistic kingdom"
- Kingdom of the Bosporus
- Macedon
- Kingdom of Judah
- Kingdom of Iberia
- Iberia (ancient kingdom)
- Macedonian Kingdom under the Antipatrids and Antigonids via concept surface "Hellenistic kingdom"
- Lydia
- Greco-Bactrian Kingdom via concept surface "Hellenistic kingdom"
- Indo-Greek Kingdoms via concept surface "Hellenistic kingdom"
- Kingdom of Cappadocia via concept surface "Hellenistic kingdom"