Europe in 1740
This map shows the 44 states and peoples the data has for Europe in that year.
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States and peoples in Europe in 1740
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Russian Empire
- Ottoman Empire
- Swedish Empire
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Denmark-Norway
- Habsburg Monarchy
- Kingdom of Spain
- Kingdom of France
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Holy Roman Empire Minor States
- Regency of Algiers
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Astrakhan Khanate
- Crimean Khanate
- Zaporozhian Cossacks
- Kalmyk Khanate
- Sloboda Ukraine
- Principality of Moldavia
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Kingdom of Sardinia
- Beylik of Tunis
- Morocco
- Afsharid Iran
- Principality of Wallachia
- Duchy of Bavaria
- Republic of Venice
- Swiss Confederation
- Papal States
- Dutch Republic
- Electorate of Hanover
- Duchy of Courland
- Republic of Genoa
- Kingdom of Imereti
- Principality of Abkhazia
- Principality of Mingrelia
- Principality of Guria
- Principality of Svaneti
- Comtat Venaissin
- Republic of Ragusa
- Spanish Empire
- British Colonial Empire
- Principality of Monaco
- County of Urgell
- Principality of Liechtenstein
New on the map since 1715
Russian Empire · Kingdom of Sardinia · Afsharid Iran · Duchy of Courland · Principality of Svaneti · Principality of Liechtenstein
Gone from the map by 1765
Afsharid Iran
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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.