Middle East & North Africa in AD 117
AD 117 is the Roman Empire at its greatest extent, under Trajan. This map shows the 11 states and peoples the data has for Middle East & North Africa in that year.
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States and peoples in Middle East & North Africa in AD 117
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Roman Empire
- Parthian Empire
- Kingdom of Kush
- Himyarite Kingdom
- Indo-Scythians
- Kingdom of Axum
- Hadhramaut
- Caucasian Albania
- Caucasian Iberia
- Kushan Empire
- Lazica
New on the map since AD 17
Kushan Empire
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Middle East & North Africa in other years
Other regions in AD 117
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.