The Mediterranean in 1630
This map shows the 33 states and peoples the data has for The Mediterranean in that year.
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States and peoples in the Mediterranean in 1630
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Ottoman Empire
- Iberian Union
- Kingdom of France
- Saadi Sultanate
- Habsburg Monarchy
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Principality of Transylvania
- Holy Roman Empire Minor States
- Safavid Dynasty
- Small Horde
- Principality of Moldavia
- Principality of Wallachia
- Don Cossacks
- Crimean Khanate
- Republic of Venice
- Duchy of Bavaria
- Swiss Confederation
- Papal States
- House of Savoy
- Republic of Florence
- Duchy of Lorraine
- Tsardom of Russia
- Kingdom of Kartli
- Republic of Genoa
- Principality of Mingrelia
- Kingdom of Imereti
- Principality of Abkhazia
- Principality of Guria
- Spanish Empire
- Comtat Venaissin
- Republic of Ragusa
- Huguenots
- County of Urgell
New on the map since 1605
Safavid Dynasty · Kingdom of Kartli · Principality of Mingrelia · Kingdom of Imereti · Principality of Abkhazia · Principality of Guria · Huguenots
Gone from the map by 1655
Iberian Union · Don Cossacks · Huguenots
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Other regions in 1630
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.