The Mediterranean in 1740
This map shows the 41 states and peoples the data has for The Mediterranean in that year.
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States and peoples in the Mediterranean in 1740
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Ottoman Empire
- Habsburg Monarchy
- Kingdom of Spain
- Kingdom of France
- Morocco
- Regency of Algiers
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Crimean Khanate
- Zaporozhian Cossacks
- Kalmyk Khanate
- Astrakhan Khanate
- Holy Roman Empire Minor States
- Principality of Moldavia
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Karamanli Dynasty
- Beylik of Tunis
- Kingdom of Sardinia
- Afsharid Iran
- Principality of Wallachia
- Duchy of Bavaria
- Republic of Venice
- Swiss Confederation
- Papal States
- Sloboda Ukraine
- Russian Empire
- Republic of Genoa
- Kingdom of Imereti
- Principality of Abkhazia
- Principality of Mingrelia
- Principality of Guria
- Principality of Svaneti
- Comtat Venaissin
- Republic of Ragusa
- Spanish Empire
- Portuguese Empire
- British Colonial Empire
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Saadi Sultanate
- Principality of Monaco
- County of Urgell
- Principality of Liechtenstein
New on the map since 1715
Kingdom of Sardinia · Afsharid Iran · Russian Empire · Principality of Svaneti · Principality of Liechtenstein
Gone from the map by 1765
Afsharid Iran · Saadi Sultanate
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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.