The Mediterranean in 1938
1938 is the eve of the Second World War. This map shows the 31 states and peoples the data has for The Mediterranean in that year.
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States and peoples in the Mediterranean in 1938
Largest first, by area on this map.
- French Africa
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Republic of Turkey
- Italian Africa
- French Third Republic
- Kingdom of Egypt
- Spanish Nationalists
- Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Kingdom of Romania
- Kingdom of Italy
- Kingdom of Iraq
- Yugoslavia
- Nazi Germany
- Second Spanish Republic
- French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- First Hellenic Republic
- Hungarian Republic
- Principality of Bulgaria
- Czechoslovakia
- Estado Novo
- Second Polish Republic
- Swiss Confederation
- Albania
- Pahlavi Dynasty
- British Africa
- Kingdom of Belgium
- Luxembourg
- Tangier International Zone
- Principality of Andorra
- Kingdom of Monaco
New on the map since 1913
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics · Republic of Turkey · Kingdom of Egypt · Spanish Nationalists · Kingdom of Saudi Arabia · Kingdom of Romania · Kingdom of Iraq · Yugoslavia · Nazi Germany · Second Spanish Republic · French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon · Hungarian Republic · Czechoslovakia · Estado Novo · Second Polish Republic · Pahlavi Dynasty
Gone from the map by 1963
French Africa · Italian Africa · French Third Republic · Kingdom of Egypt · Spanish Nationalists · Kingdom of Romania · Kingdom of Italy · Kingdom of Iraq · Yugoslavia · Nazi Germany · Second Spanish Republic · French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon · First Hellenic Republic · Hungarian Republic · Principality of Bulgaria · Second Polish Republic · Albania · British Africa · Tangier International Zone · Kingdom of Monaco
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The Mediterranean in other years
Other regions in 1938
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.