Europe in 1250
This map shows the 72 states and peoples the data has for Europe in that year.
Watch these borders move
Play the changes on an animated map, in your browser. Free, no account needed.
States and peoples in Europe in 1250
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Mongol Empire
- Holy Roman Empire
- Old Kingdom of Norway
- Kingdom of Hungary
- Crown of Castile
- Kingdom of England
- Kingdom of Sweden
- Nicaean Empire
- Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- Kingdom of France
- Sultanate of Rum
- Icelandic Commonwealth
- Mamluk Sultanate
- Hafsid Dynasty
- Duchy of Sandomierz
- Teutonic Order
- Kingdom of Denmark
- Zayyanid dynasty
- Second Bulgarian Empire
- Crown of Aragon
- Kingdom of Sicily
- Zengid dynasty
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Kingdom of Bohemia
- Kingdom of Alba
- Kingdom of Serbia
- Despotate of Epirus
- Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
- Marinid Sultanate
- Duchy of Greater Poland
- Duchy of Masovia
- Duchy of Brittany
- Emirate of Granada
- County of Champagne
- Capetian House of Anjou
- Republic of Venice
- Republic of Pisa
- Kingdom of Arles
- Viking settlements
- Banate of Bosnia
- County of Auvergne
- Principality of Achaea
- Duchy of Głogów
- Papal States
- Empire of Trebizond
- Kingdom of Gwynedd
- Duchy of Opole
- Duchy of Silesia
- Abbasid Caliphate
- County of Nevers
- County of Périgord
- County of Touraine
- Kingdom of Navarre
- Duchy of Aquitaine
- County of Flanders
- County of Blôis
- Kingdom of Cyprus
- County of Artois
- Duchy of Athens
- Republic of Genoa
- County of Armagnac
- Giudicato of Logudoro
- Kingdom of Mann
- Principality of Antioch
- County of Foix
- Giudicato of Arborea
- County of Tripoli
- Latin Empire
- Almohad Caliphate
- County of Ampuria
- Duchy of the Archipelago
- County of Boulogne
New on the map since 1200
Mongol Empire · Crown of Castile · Kingdom of England · Nicaean Empire · Grand Duchy of Lithuania · Mamluk Sultanate · Hafsid Dynasty · Teutonic Order · Zayyanid dynasty · Zengid dynasty · Kingdom of Bohemia · Despotate of Epirus · Marinid Sultanate · Duchy of Masovia · Duchy of Brittany · Emirate of Granada · Capetian House of Anjou · County of Auvergne · Principality of Achaea · Duchy of Głogów · Empire of Trebizond · Abbasid Caliphate · County of Périgord · County of Touraine · Duchy of Aquitaine · County of Artois · Duchy of Athens · County of Armagnac · County of Foix · Latin Empire · Duchy of the Archipelago
Gone from the map by 1300
Mongol Empire · Holy Roman Empire · Nicaean Empire · Sultanate of Rum · Icelandic Commonwealth · Kingdom of Sicily · Zengid dynasty · Kingdom of Alba · Marinid Sultanate · County of Champagne · Kingdom of Gwynedd · Abbasid Caliphate · Kingdom of Navarre · Giudicato of Logudoro · Kingdom of Mann · Principality of Antioch · County of Tripoli · Latin Empire · County of Boulogne
Animated maps of this time
Europe in other years
Other regions in 1250
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.