Beta — All features are temporarily free. Send feedback

Europe in 1610

This map shows the 35 states and peoples the data has for Europe in that year.

Map of Europe in 1610 with 35 states and peoples
Borders: Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0). Coarse outlines: check and adjust them for your story.

Watch these borders move

Play the changes on an animated map, in your browser. Free, no account needed.

States and peoples in Europe in 1610

Largest first, by area on this map.

  • Ottoman Empire
  • Tsardom of Russia
  • Kingdom of Sweden
  • Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
  • Denmark-Norway
  • Iberian Union
  • Kingdom of France
  • Habsburg Monarchy
  • Kingdom of England
  • Holy Roman Empire Minor States
  • Principality of Transylvania
  • Small Horde
  • Principality of Moldavia
  • Principality of Wallachia
  • Don Cossacks
  • Crimean Khanate
  • Republic of Venice
  • Saadi Sultanate
  • Electorate of Brandenburg
  • Swiss Confederation
  • Duchy of Prussia
  • Papal States
  • Safavid Dynasty
  • House of Savoy
  • Duchy of Bavaria
  • Dutch Republic
  • Electorate of Saxony
  • Republic of Florence
  • Duchy of Lorraine
  • Electorate of Trier
  • Republic of Genoa
  • Spanish Empire
  • Comtat Venaissin
  • Republic of Ragusa
  • County of Urgell

Gone from the map by 1635

Kingdom of Sweden · Electorate of Brandenburg · Duchy of Prussia · Electorate of Saxony · Electorate of Trier

Animated maps of this time

Europe in other years

Other regions in 1610

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.