The Mediterranean in AD 700
This map shows the 17 states and peoples the data has for The Mediterranean in that year.
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States and peoples in the Mediterranean in AD 700
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Umayyad Caliphate
- Byzantine Empire
- Visigothic Kingdom
- Khazaria
- Kingdom of the Franks
- Avar Khaganate
- Aquitaine
- Kingdom of Italy
- First Bulgarian Empire
- Bavarians
- Frisia Kingdom
- Carantania
- Principality of Iberia
- Kingdom of Lazica
- Breton Kingdoms
- Duchy of Thuringia
- Cyprus Condominium
New on the map since AD 600
Umayyad Caliphate · Byzantine Empire · Khazaria · Aquitaine · First Bulgarian Empire · Frisia Kingdom · Carantania · Principality of Iberia · Kingdom of Lazica · Cyprus Condominium
Gone from the map by AD 800
Umayyad Caliphate · Visigothic Kingdom · Aquitaine · Kingdom of Italy · Bavarians · Frisia Kingdom · Carantania · Principality of Iberia · Kingdom of Lazica · Duchy of Thuringia
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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.