The Mediterranean in 1770
This map shows the 39 states and peoples the data has for The Mediterranean in that year.
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States and peoples in the Mediterranean in 1770
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Ottoman Empire
- Kingdom of Spain
- Habsburg Monarchy
- Kingdom of France
- Morocco
- Russian Empire
- Regency of Algiers
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Crimean Khanate
- Kalmyk Khanate
- Zaporozhian Cossacks
- Kingdom of Naples (Napoleonic)
- Holy Roman Empire Minor States
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Karamanli Dynasty
- Principality of Wallachia
- Kingdom of Sardinia
- Beylik of Tunis
- Duchy of Bavaria
- Republic of Venice
- Swiss Confederation
- Papal States
- Kingdom of Georgia
- Zand Dynasty
- Republic of Genoa
- Kingdom of Imereti
- Khanates of the Caucasus
- Principality of Abkhazia
- Principality of Mingrelia
- Principality of Guria
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Principality of Svaneti
- Comtat Venaissin
- Republic of Ragusa
- Spanish Empire
- British Colonial Empire
- Principality of Monaco
- County of Urgell
- Principality of Liechtenstein
New on the map since 1745
Kingdom of Naples (Napoleonic) · Zand Dynasty · Khanates of the Caucasus
Gone from the map by 1795
Kingdom of France · Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth · Crimean Khanate · Kalmyk Khanate · Zaporozhian Cossacks · Zand Dynasty · Comtat Venaissin · Spanish Empire · British Colonial Empire · Principality of Monaco
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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.