The Mediterranean in 1720
This map shows the 44 states and peoples the data has for The Mediterranean in that year.
Watch these borders move
Play the changes on an animated map, in your browser. Free, no account needed.
States and peoples in the Mediterranean in 1720
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Ottoman Empire
- Habsburg Monarchy
- Kingdom of France
- Kingdom of Spain
- Morocco
- Regency of Algiers
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Zaporozhian Cossacks
- Kalmyk Khanate
- Astrakhan Khanate
- Holy Roman Empire Minor States
- Small Horde
- Principality of Moldavia
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Karamanli Dynasty
- Beylik of Tunis
- Crimean Khanate
- Principality of Wallachia
- Duchy of Bavaria
- Republic of Venice
- House of Savoy
- Swiss Confederation
- Papal States
- Sloboda Ukraine
- Tsardom of Russia
- Kingdom of Georgia
- Safavid Dynasty
- Republic of Florence
- Duchy of Lorraine
- Republic of Genoa
- Kingdom of Imereti
- Principality of Abkhazia
- Principality of Mingrelia
- Principality of Guria
- Kingdom of Kakheti
- Comtat Venaissin
- Republic of Ragusa
- Spanish Empire
- Portuguese Empire
- British Colonial Empire
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Saadi Sultanate
- Principality of Monaco
- County of Urgell
New on the map since 1695
Regency of Algiers · Karamanli Dynasty · Beylik of Tunis · Kingdom of Georgia · Duchy of Lorraine · Kingdom of Kakheti · British Colonial Empire · Kingdom of Prussia
Gone from the map by 1745
Small Horde · House of Savoy · Tsardom of Russia · Safavid Dynasty · Republic of Florence · Duchy of Lorraine · Saadi Sultanate
Animated maps of this time
The Mediterranean in other years
Other regions in 1720
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.