The Mediterranean in 1560
This map shows the 37 states and peoples the data has for The Mediterranean in that year.
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States and peoples in the Mediterranean in 1560
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Ottoman Empire
- Kingdom of Spain
- Kingdom of France
- Saadi Sultanate
- Habsburg Monarchy
- House of Jagiellon
- Crimean Khanate
- Eastern Hungarian Kingdom
- Holy Roman Empire Minor States
- Principality of Moldavia
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Hafsid Dynasty
- House of Bourbon
- Principality of Wallachia
- Don Cossacks
- Republic of Venice
- Swiss Confederation
- Papal States
- Duchy of Bavaria
- Safavid Dynasty
- Kingdom of Georgia
- Republic of Florence
- Duchy of Lorraine
- Electorate of Trier
- Tsardom of Russia
- Principality of Mingrelia
- Kingdom of Imereti
- Republic of Genoa
- Principality of Abkhazia
- Principality of Guria
- Portuguese Africa
- Kingdom of Kakheti
- Comtat Venaissin
- Spanish Empire
- Republic of Ragusa
- County of Urgell
- Principality of Orange
New on the map since 1535
Saadi Sultanate · Don Cossacks · Tsardom of Russia
Gone from the map by 1585
Kingdom of Spain · House of Jagiellon · Eastern Hungarian Kingdom · Kingdom of Portugal · Hafsid Dynasty · Kingdom of Georgia · Principality of Mingrelia · Kingdom of Imereti · Principality of Abkhazia · Principality of Guria · Portuguese Africa · Kingdom of Kakheti · Principality of Orange
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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.