List of Jewish states and dynasties
This is a list of dynasties and states that have historically had ties to either ethnic Jews or their religion of Judaism.
States by region
Southern Levant
- Twelve Tribes of Israel,
- Kingdom of Israel,
- Kingdom of Israel,
- Kingdom of Judah,
- Yehud Medinata,
- Hasmonean kingdom,
- Herodian kingdom/tetrarchy, 37 BCE – 100 CE
- Judean provisional government, 66–68 CE
- Bar Kokhba Jewish state, 132–135 CE
- State of Israel, 1948 CE–present
Wider Middle East
- Himyarite Kingdom, Yemen, 390 CE – 525 CE
- Nehardea, Mesopotamia, 18–33 CE
- Adiabene, Mesopotamia,
- Mahoza Kingdom, Mesopotamia, 495–502 CE
- Banu Nadir, Banu Qurayza and other Jewish tribes of the Khaybar, Saudi Arabia, unknown-628 CE.
Africa
- Kingdom of Simien, Ethiopia, legendary but Gudit was thought to have reigned 960–1000 CE following the collapse of the Kingdom of Aksum before the rise of the Zagwe dynasty in 1137 CE
Caucasia
- Khazar Kingdom,
- Aba-Sava, Dagestan 1630–1800, a semi-independent Mountain Jewish polity and relatively autonomous Persian vassal located south of Derbent
Siberia
- Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia, one of the federal subjects of Russia.
Proposed
- Medieval French Jewish vassal state, 768–900 CE
- Brutakhi, early-13th-century Turkic polity whose Jewishness is debatable; possibly either a Khazar remnant state or Jewish splinter state from the Cuman-Kipchak Confederation