The Mediterranean in 1880
This map shows the 27 states and peoples the data has for The Mediterranean in that year.
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States and peoples in the Mediterranean in 1880
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Ottoman Empire
- Russian Empire
- Austria-Hungary
- French Third Republic
- Ottoman Tripolitania
- Kingdom of Spain
- French Africa
- Morocco
- Kingdom of Italy
- Khedivate of Egypt
- German Empire
- United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Beylik of Tunis
- Principality of Bulgaria
- Emirate of Jabal Shammar
- Kingdom of Serbia
- Swiss Confederation
- First Hellenic Republic
- Qajar Dynasty
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Montenegro
- Emirate of Nejd
- Kingdom of Belgium
- Netherlands
- Principality of Andorra
- Kingdom of Monaco
New on the map since 1855
Austria-Hungary · French Third Republic · Kingdom of Italy · Khedivate of Egypt · German Empire · United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia · Principality of Bulgaria · Emirate of Jabal Shammar · Kingdom of Serbia
Gone from the map by 1905
Khedivate of Egypt · Beylik of Tunis · Kingdom of Serbia
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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.