List of Iron Age states


The Iron Age is an archaeological age, the last of the three-age system of Old World prehistory.
It follows the Bronze Age, in the Ancient Near East beginning c. 1200 BC, and in Europe beginning
after c. 800 BC.
It is taken to end with the beginning of Classical Antiquity, in about the 6th century BC,
although in Northern Europe, the Germanic Iron Age is taken to last until the beginning of the Viking Age, c. AD 800.
The term "Iron Age" is mostly limited to Europe and the Near East and the Indian subcontinent, although
West Africa also has some iron metallurgy, beginning with the Nok culture c. 550 BC and spread by the Bantu expansion.
There are also cast iron artefacts in China from about 500 BC,
but use of iron was minimal, and the Bronze Age in China is usually extended to the beginning of the classical period.

Africa

Europe

StateCapital/sTypeExisted
Alba LongaLaviniumKingdom1200 – 753 BC
AlashiyaEnkomi, KalavasosKingdom1450 – 1050 BC
ArcadiaKingdom1000 – 743 BC
ArgolisArgosKingdom1200 – 379 BC
AthensAthensKingdom city state1556 – 683 BC
AthensAthensRepublican city state683 – 87 BC
BoeotiaThebesKingdom1100 – 750 BC
CorinthCorinthCity state700 – 338 BC
DaciaSarmizegetusa, RegiaKingdom, later Empire700 BC – 106AD
DauniaTribal kingdom7th century – 89 BC
EpirusAmvrakia, Passaron, PhoeniceKingdom1183 – 168 BC
EtruriaVeiiKingdom768 – 264 BC
IllyriaScodraKingdom2000 – 168 BC
LacedaemonSpartaKingdom1300 – 950 BC
LiburniaTribal thalassocracy11th century – 34 BC
LocriaAmphissa, NaupactusKingdom1250 – 386 BC
LucaniaTribal kingdom1000 v 356 BC
MacedonAigai, PellaKingdom860 – 146 BC
Magna GraeciaVariousKingdom city states740 – 89 BC
MessapiaHyriaTribal kingdom8th century – 89 BC
MesseniaMesseneKingdom1300 – 724 BC
OenotriaMetabonTribal kingdom1000 – 325 BC
OscansAusonesTribal kingdom1000 – 4th centuries BC
Padanian EtruriaVariousFederated city states9th century – 5th century BC
Kingdom of RomeRomeKingdom753 – 509 BC
SabinumTribal kingdomc. 760 – 494 BC
SamniumBovianumTribal confederationc. 600 – 82 BC
SpartaSpartaKingdom950 – 146 BC
TartessosTartessusTribal kingdom1000 – 450 BC
ThraciaBizye, SevtopolisTribal chiefdom1500 – 450 BC
TyrrheniaVariousKingdom city states1100 – 764 BC

Eurasian Steppe and Central Asia

East Asia

South Asia

West Asia