The Mediterranean in 1885
1885 is the year the Berlin Conference ended. This map shows the 25 states and peoples the data has for The Mediterranean in that year.
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States and peoples in the Mediterranean in 1885
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Ottoman Empire
- Russian Empire
- Austria-Hungary
- French Third Republic
- French Africa
- Ottoman Tripolitania
- Kingdom of Spain
- British Africa
- Morocco
- Kingdom of Italy
- German Empire
- United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia
- Principality of Bulgaria
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Emirate of Jabal Shammar
- First Hellenic Republic
- Serbs
- Swiss Confederation
- Qajar Dynasty
- Montenegro
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Kingdom of Belgium
- Netherlands
- Principality of Andorra
- Kingdom of Monaco
New on the map since 1860
Austria-Hungary · French Third Republic · British Africa · Kingdom of Italy · German Empire · Principality of Bulgaria · Emirate of Jabal Shammar
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The Mediterranean in other years
Other regions in 1885
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.