Central Asia in 1580
This map shows the 14 states and peoples the data has for Central Asia in that year.
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States and peoples in Central Asia in 1580
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Kazakh Khanate
- Tümed
- Safavid Dynasty
- Eastern Moghulistan
- Khanate of Sibir
- Tsardom of Russia
- Tibet
- Khanate of Bukhara
- Small Horde
- Mughal Empire
- Western Moghulistan
- Khanate of Khiva
- Kashmiri Sultanate
- Ottoman Empire
New on the map since 1555
Small Horde
Gone from the map by 1605
Khanate of Sibir · Kashmiri Sultanate
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The outlines are coarse and follow the Cliopatria dataset: borders before modern surveys are estimates, and a blank area means the data has no state on record there, not that nobody lived there. A state that changed hands during the year can appear together with its successor.