The Mediterranean in 1789
1789 is the year the French Revolution began. This map shows the 36 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 1789
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Ottoman Empire
- Habsburg Monarchy
- Russian Empire
- Kingdom of France
- Kingdom of Spain
- Morocco
- Regency of Algiers
- Kingdom of Naples (Napoleonic)
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Holy Roman Empire Minor States
- Karamanli Dynasty
- Principality of Wallachia
- Kingdom of Sardinia
- Principality of Moldavia
- Beylik of Tunis
- Emirate of Diriyah
- Duchy of Bavaria
- Republic of Venice
- Swiss Confederation
- Papal States
- Kingdom of Georgia
- Khanates of the Caucasus
- Republic of Genoa
- Principality of Abkhazia
- Kingdom of Imereti
- Principality of Mingrelia
- Principality of Guria
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Principality of Svaneti
- Comtat Venaissin
- Republic of Ragusa
- Principality of Monaco
- County of Urgell
- British Colonial Empire
- Principality of Liechtenstein
New on the map since 1764
Emirate of Diriyah
Gone from the map by 1814
Habsburg Monarchy · Kingdom of France · Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth · Holy Roman Empire Minor States · Duchy of Bavaria · Republic of Venice · Swiss Confederation · Kingdom of Georgia · Khanates of the Caucasus · Republic of Genoa · Kingdom of Imereti · Principality of Mingrelia · Kingdom of Prussia · Comtat Venaissin · Republic of Ragusa · County of Urgell · British Colonial Empire
Animated maps of this time
The Mediterranean in other years
Other regions in 1789
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.