The Mediterranean in 1930
This map shows the 30 states and peoples the data has for The Mediterranean in that year.
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States and peoples in the Mediterranean in 1930
Largest first, by area on this map.
- French Africa
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Republic of Turkey
- Italian Africa
- French Third Republic
- Kingdom of Spain
- British Africa
- Kingdom of Egypt
- Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd
- Kingdom of Romania
- Kingdom of Italy
- Yugoslavia
- French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon
- Czechoslovakia
- Weimar Republic
- First Hellenic Republic
- Principality of Bulgaria
- Hungarian Republic
- Republic of Austria
- Estado Novo
- Second Polish Republic
- Swiss Confederation
- Albania
- Pahlavi Dynasty
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Kingdom of Belgium
- Luxembourg
- Tangier International Zone
- Principality of Andorra
- Kingdom of Monaco
New on the map since 1905
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics · Republic of Turkey · Italian Africa · Kingdom of Egypt · Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd · Kingdom of Romania · Yugoslavia · French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon · Czechoslovakia · Weimar Republic · Hungarian Republic · Republic of Austria · Estado Novo · Second Polish Republic · Albania · Pahlavi Dynasty · Tangier International Zone
Gone from the map by 1955
Italian Africa · French Third Republic · Kingdom of Spain · British Africa · Kingdom of Egypt · Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd · Kingdom of Romania · Kingdom of Italy · Yugoslavia · French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon · Weimar Republic · First Hellenic Republic · Principality of Bulgaria · Hungarian Republic · Republic of Austria · Second Polish Republic · Albania · Kingdom of Monaco
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The Mediterranean in other years
Other regions in 1930
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.