Europe in 1620
This map shows the 39 states and peoples the data has for Europe in that year.
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States and peoples in Europe in 1620
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Tsardom of Russia
- Ottoman Empire
- Swedish Empire
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Denmark-Norway
- Iberian Union
- Kingdom of France
- Kingdom of England
- Holy Roman Empire Minor States
- Habsburg Monarchy
- Holy Roman Empire
- Principality of Transylvania
- Brandenburg-Prussia
- Small Horde
- Principality of Moldavia
- Principality of Wallachia
- Don Cossacks
- Crimean Khanate
- Republic of Venice
- Saadi Sultanate
- Swiss Confederation
- Papal States
- House of Savoy
- Duchy of Bavaria
- Dutch Republic
- Electorate of Saxony
- Safavid Dynasty
- Republic of Florence
- Duchy of Lorraine
- Kingdom of Kartli
- Republic of Genoa
- Principality of Mingrelia
- Kingdom of Imereti
- Principality of Abkhazia
- Principality of Guria
- Spanish Empire
- Comtat Venaissin
- Republic of Ragusa
- County of Urgell
New on the map since 1595
Swedish Empire · Holy Roman Empire · Brandenburg-Prussia · Safavid Dynasty · Kingdom of Kartli · Principality of Mingrelia · Kingdom of Imereti · Principality of Abkhazia · Principality of Guria
Gone from the map by 1645
Iberian Union · Holy Roman Empire · Don Cossacks · Duchy of Lorraine
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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.