The Mediterranean in AD 500
This map shows the 18 states and peoples the data has for The Mediterranean in that year.
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States and peoples in the Mediterranean in AD 500
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Eastern Roman Empire
- Visigothic Kingdom
- Ostrogothic Kingdom
- Sasanian Empire
- Salian Franks
- Vandal Kingdom
- Lakhmid Kingdom
- Burgundian Kingdom
- Kingdom of the Suebi
- Caucasian Iberia
- Lazica
- Brythons
- Lombards
- Kingdom of the Franks
- Kingdom of Thuringia
- Ripuarian Franks
- Caucasian Albania
- Hunnic Empire
New on the map since AD 400
Visigothic Kingdom · Ostrogothic Kingdom · Salian Franks · Vandal Kingdom · Burgundian Kingdom · Kingdom of the Suebi · Brythons · Lombards · Kingdom of the Franks · Kingdom of Thuringia · Hunnic Empire
Gone from the map by AD 600
Ostrogothic Kingdom · Salian Franks · Vandal Kingdom · Burgundian Kingdom · Kingdom of the Suebi · Caucasian Iberia · Lazica · Brythons · Lombards · Kingdom of Thuringia · Ripuarian Franks · Caucasian Albania
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Other regions in AD 500
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.