Europe in 1690
This map shows the 42 states and peoples the data has for Europe in that year.
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States and peoples in Europe in 1690
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Tsardom of Russia
- Ottoman Empire
- Swedish Empire
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Denmark-Norway
- Kingdom of Spain
- Kingdom of France
- Habsburg Monarchy
- Kingdom of England
- Holy Roman Empire Minor States
- Brandenburg-Prussia
- Astrakhan Khanate
- Zaporozhian Cossacks
- Principality of Transylvania
- Sloboda Ukraine
- Kalmyk Khanate
- Small Horde
- Principality of Moldavia
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Principality of Wallachia
- Crimean Khanate
- Republic of Venice
- Morocco
- Duchy of Bavaria
- Swiss Confederation
- Papal States
- House of Savoy
- Dutch Republic
- Electorate of Saxony
- Safavid Dynasty
- Republic of Florence
- Kingdom of Kartli
- Principality of Mingrelia
- Republic of Genoa
- Kingdom of Imereti
- Principality of Abkhazia
- Principality of Guria
- Comtat Venaissin
- Republic of Ragusa
- Spanish Empire
- Principality of Monaco
- County of Urgell
New on the map since 1665
Sloboda Ukraine · Morocco
Gone from the map by 1715
Kingdom of England · Principality of Transylvania · Electorate of Saxony · Kingdom of Kartli
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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.