The Mediterranean in 1206
1206 is the year Genghis Khan united the Mongols. This map shows the 67 states and peoples the data has for The Mediterranean in that year.
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States and peoples in the Mediterranean in 1206
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Almohad Caliphate
- Ayyubid Sultanate
- Holy Roman Empire
- Halych-Volhynia occupation
- Kingdom of Hungary
- Sultanate of Rum
- Second Bulgarian Empire
- Kimek-Kipchak confederation
- Hamdanid Emirates
- Kingdom of France
- Kievan Rus'
- Kingdom of Castile
- Principality of Galicia-Volhynia
- Kingdom of León
- Kingdom of Georgia
- Zengid dynasty
- Kingdom of Sicily
- Nicaean Empire
- Crown of Aragon
- Latin Empire
- Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Abbasid Caliphate
- County of Toulouse
- Kingdom of Bohemia
- Despotate of Epirus
- Kingdom of Serbia
- Duchy of Brittany
- Empire of Trebizond
- Kingdom of Thessalonica
- Principality of Pereyaslavl
- Angevin Empire
- Banate of Bosnia
- County of Champagne
- Principality of Kiev
- County of Poitou
- Kingdom of Arles
- Republic of Venice
- Principality of Achaea
- County of Auvergne
- Republic of Pisa
- County of Vermandois
- Papal States
- Duchy of Sandomierz
- County of Nevers
- County of Périgord
- County of Touraine
- Kingdom of Navarre
- Duchy of Aquitaine
- County of Berga
- County of Blôis
- Kingdom of Jerusalem
- Kingdom of Cyprus
- Duchy of Athens
- County of Armagnac
- Giudicato of Logudoro
- Republic of Genoa
- Principality of Antioch
- County of Urgell
- Duchy of Opole
- Giudicato of Gallura
- Giudicato of Arborea
- County of Tripoli
- Negroponte
- Byzantine Empire
- Domain of Rhodes
- County of Ampuria
New on the map since 1156
Ayyubid Sultanate · Second Bulgarian Empire · Hamdanid Emirates · Principality of Galicia-Volhynia · Kingdom of León · Nicaean Empire · Crown of Aragon · Latin Empire · Abbasid Caliphate · Kingdom of Bohemia · Despotate of Epirus · Kingdom of Serbia · Empire of Trebizond · Kingdom of Thessalonica · Banate of Bosnia · County of Poitou · Principality of Achaea · County of Auvergne · County of Périgord · County of Touraine · Duchy of Aquitaine · County of Berga · Kingdom of Cyprus · Duchy of Athens · County of Armagnac · Duchy of Opole · Negroponte · Domain of Rhodes
Gone from the map by 1256
Ayyubid Sultanate · Halych-Volhynia occupation · Kimek-Kipchak confederation · Hamdanid Emirates · Kievan Rus' · Kingdom of Castile · Principality of Galicia-Volhynia · Kingdom of León · Kingdom of Georgia · County of Toulouse · Kingdom of Thessalonica · Principality of Pereyaslavl · Angevin Empire · Principality of Kiev · County of Poitou · County of Vermandois · County of Berga · County of Urgell · Giudicato of Gallura · Negroponte · Byzantine Empire · Domain of Rhodes
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Other regions in 1206
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.