Lists of ancient monarchs
Lists of ancient kings are organized by region and peoples, and include kings recorded in ancient history (3000 BC – 1700 AD) and in mythology.
Southern Europe
Greeks
Historical
- Lists of rulers of Greece
- List of ancient Greek tyrants
- List of kings of Argos
- Kings of Sparta
- Kings of Macedon
- Attalid dynasty
- List of the kings of Epirus
Mythological
Italy
Romans
- List of Roman kings
- List of Roman emperors
- List of Byzantine emperors
- Roman Emperors during the Fall of the Western Empire
- List of Roman client rulers
Balkans
Northern Europe
British Isles
Britain
- King of the Britons
- List of kings of the Picts
- List of kings of Dumnonia
- List of rulers of Wales
- List of monarchs of Powys
Ireland
- List of High Kings of Ireland (largely mythological for ancient times)
- Kings of Ailech
- List of kings of Connacht
- Kings of Uí Maine (semi-historic in ancient times)
- List of kings of Ulster
Germanics
- List of Frankish kings
- Kings of the Burgundians
- List of kings of the Lombards
- Kings of the Angles
- List of Anglo-Saxon monarchs and kingdoms
Northern Africa
- Magonids
- List of kings of Numidia
- List of kings of Mauretania
- List of kings of Cyrene
- List of kings of Axum
Egypt
Nubia
Near East
Mesopotamia
- List of Mesopotamian dynasties
- List of kings of Akkad
- List of kings of Babylon
- List of Assyrian kings
- List of kings of Mari
- List of rulers of Mitanni
Syria and Canaan
- List of Canaanite rulers
- List of kings of Ebla
- Kings of Ugarit
- List of rulers of Aleppo
- List of kings of Tyre
- Aramean kings
- List of Syrian monarchs
- List of rulers of Damascus
- List of Nabataean kings
- List of Palmyrene monarchs
Jews
Anatolia
- List of Hittite kings
- List of Neo-Hittite kings
- List of kings of Urartu
- List of Kings of Lydia
- List of rulers of Cappadocia
- List of rulers of Paphlagonia
- List of rulers of Commagene
- List of Kings of Pontus
- List of rulers of Bithynia
- List of kings of Galatia
Caucasus
Iran
- List of rulers of Pre-Achaemenid kingdoms of Iran
- List of rulers of Elam
- List of kings of Persia
- List of Seleucid rulers
- List of Parthian kings
- List of rulers of Parthian sub-kingdoms
- Kings of Characene
- List of shahanshahs of the Sasanian Empire
Far East
- List of Emperors of Japan
- List of monarchs of Vietnam
- Monarchy of Cambodia
- List of early and legendary monarchs of Burma
Indian Subcontinent
- List of Indian monarchs
- List of Kuru dynasty rulers
- Mahajanapada
- List of Mauryan rulers
- List of Tamil monarchs
- List of Brihadratha dynasty rulers
- List of rulers of Bengal
- Legendary early Chola kings (mythological)
- List of rulers of Odisha
- List of rulers of Malwa
- List of Manipuri kings
- List of Sinhalese queens
China
- List of Chinese monarchs
- List of Chinese leaders
- Kings of the Han dynasty
- List of emperors of the Han dynasty
- List of emperors of China's Northern Dynasties
- List of emperors of China's Southern Dynasties
- List of emperors of the Tang dynasty
- List of emperors of the Liao dynasty
- List of emperors of the Ming dynasty
- List of Yuan emperors
- List of Northern Yuan khans
- List of emperors of the Qing dynasty
Korea
- List of monarchs of Korea
- List of legendary monarchs of Korea (mythological)
- List of Mahan confederacy monarchs (mythological)
- List of Gija Joseon monarchs (mythological)
- List of Wiman Joseon monarchs
Americas
Maya
- Rulers of Calakmul (no actual king-list; must be dug out of text)
- Lords of Caracol
- List of rulers of Copan
- List of the rulers of Dos Pilas
- Rulers of Dos Pilas
- Kʼicheʼ kingdom of Qʼumarkaj (no actual king-list; must be dug out of history)
- Rulers of Motul de San José
- Rulers of Palenque
- List of rulers of Piedras Negras
- Rulers of Quiriguá
- Rulers of Tikal
- Yaxchilan rulers
Valley of Mexico
Incas
This article includes a rulers-related list of lists.