The Mediterranean in 1000
This map shows the 53 states and peoples the data has for The Mediterranean in that year.
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States and peoples in the Mediterranean in 1000
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Fatimid Caliphate
- Byzantine Empire
- Caliphate of Córdoba
- Holy Roman Empire
- Kingdom of Hungary
- First Bulgarian Empire
- Hamdanid Emirates
- Kingdom of León
- Kingdom of Arles
- Duchy of Aquitaine
- Kingdom of Croatia
- Kievan Rus'
- Buyid Dynasty
- Duchy of Bohemia
- Georgia
- Kingdom of France
- Duchy of Gascony
- Kingdom of Castile
- Duchy of Normandy
- Kingdom of Vaspurakan
- Duchy of Brittany
- Bagratid Armenia
- Barghawata Conference
- County of Rouergue
- County of Champagne
- County of Ribagorza
- Emirate of Sicily
- County of Toulouse
- Kingdom of Poland
- Papal States
- County of Vermandois
- County of Maine
- Duchy of Benevento
- County of Blôis
- County of Anjou
- Giudicato of Cagliari
- Republic of Venice
- Giudicato of Logudoro
- County of Barcelona
- Emirate of Nekor
- Principality of Salerno
- County of Vexin
- County of Pallars
- County of Berga
- County of Rosellón
- Giudicato of Gallura
- Giudicato of Arborea
- County of Urgell
- County of Osona
- Duchy of Naples
- County of Ampuria
- Principality of Capua
- Republic of Amalfi
New on the map since AD 950
Holy Roman Empire · Kingdom of Hungary · Duchy of Aquitaine · Buyid Dynasty · Kingdom of France · Duchy of Gascony · Kingdom of Castile · County of Rouergue · County of Champagne · Emirate of Sicily · County of Toulouse · Kingdom of Poland · County of Vermandois · County of Maine · County of Blôis · County of Anjou · County of Vexin · County of Osona · County of Ampuria · Principality of Capua · Republic of Amalfi
Gone from the map by 1050
First Bulgarian Empire · Kingdom of León · Duchy of Bohemia · Georgia · Kingdom of Vaspurakan · Bagratid Armenia · Duchy of Benevento · Emirate of Nekor · County of Pallars · Principality of Capua · Republic of Amalfi
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Other regions in 1000
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.