Europe in AD 700
This map shows the 33 states and peoples the data has for Europe in that year.
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States and peoples in Europe in AD 700
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Byzantine Empire
- Umayyad Caliphate
- Scandinavian minor kingdoms
- Visigothic Kingdom
- Khazaria
- Kingdom of the Franks
- Avar Khaganate
- Aquitaine
- Kingdom of Italy
- First Bulgarian Empire
- Saxons
- Bavarians
- Frisia Kingdom
- Kingdom of Mercia
- Kingdom of Northumbria
- Carantania
- Duchy of Thuringia
- Principality of Iberia
- Kingdom of Wessex
- Kingdom of Lazica
- Breton Kingdoms
- Magna Frisia
- Dál Riata
- Strathclyde
- Kingdom of East Anglia
- Dumnonia
- Brythons
- Cyprus Condominium
- Kingdom of Gwynedd
- Kingdom of Powys
- Kingdom of Brycheiniog
- Kingdom of Gwent
- Kingdom of Morgannwg
New on the map since AD 600
Byzantine Empire · Umayyad Caliphate · Khazaria · Aquitaine · First Bulgarian Empire · Frisia Kingdom · Kingdom of Northumbria · Carantania · Principality of Iberia · Kingdom of Lazica · Magna Frisia · Strathclyde · Dumnonia · Cyprus Condominium
Gone from the map by AD 800
Umayyad Caliphate · Visigothic Kingdom · Aquitaine · Kingdom of Italy · Saxons · Bavarians · Frisia Kingdom · Carantania · Duchy of Thuringia · Principality of Iberia · Kingdom of Wessex · Kingdom of Lazica · Magna Frisia · Kingdom of East Anglia · Dumnonia
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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.